The flood of new entrants into the Southeast Asian air travel market in the last decade has started heavy investment in new routes and new aircraft, a trend with which Malaysia Airlines had sought to keep pace. (nytimes.com)
The order, valued at nearly $ 300 million at current list prices, will become the airline's first direct - purchased airplanes from Boeing and fuel the airline's continued expansion within Asia's rapidly growing air travel market. (breakingtravelnews.com)
China is forecast to overtake the US as the world's biggest air travel market by 2024, Financial Times reports. (cnbc.com)