MAS in talks to rent out A380s for pilgrim flights

Steady income: File picture of a Malaysia Airlines’ Airbus A380 at the KL International Airport. The airline is in talks to rent out its A380 superjumbos to religious travel groups for haj and umrah pilgrimages in a move likely to trim financial losses and dispel some recent gloom over demand for the huge jets. – Bernama See story on page 6

LONDON: Malaysia Airlines is in talks to rent out its A380 superjumbos to religious travel groups for Haj and Umrah pilgrimages, its chief executive said, in a move likely to trim financial losses and dispel some recent gloom over demand for the huge jets.

Malaysia Airlines has six of the world’s biggest jetliners but says the Airbus jet does not make economic sense for it at a time when it is cost-cutting as part of a restructuring. Past attempts to sell the planes have failed.