Air Lease announced long-term lease agreements for an additional two new Airbus A350-900 aircraft with Malaysia Airlines Berhad. This transaction follows ALC’s September 2015 placement of four new A350-900s with the airline. The two new aircraft are scheduled to deliver in the Q2/18 from ALC’s order book with Airbus.

“ALC couldn’t be more pleased to place these two additional aircraft with Malaysia Airlines Berhad. In addition to the four A350-900s placed by ALC last year, we are confident that these two additional A350-900 aircraft will further maximize Malaysia Airlines’ business operations as well as global growth,” said Steven F. Udvar-Házy, Air Lease Corporation’s chairman and CEO.

Malaysia Airlines CEO Christoph Mueller said, “The additional two Airbus A350-900s will complement the existing four (4) that are on order to reach a critical fleet size, allowing standby aircraft for any scheduled maintenance and enabling future network expansion. Technological and innovative advancements make flying this aircraft a real pleasure and it will bring a whole new experience to our offerings, with the aircraft able to operate non-stop from Kuala Lumpur to London and throughout Asia. We are very pleased to partner with Air Lease again on this strategic transaction.”