The aviation industry is a large and growing industry. In the past few years, the air travelling has been improving and growing by 6 % for a year. They listed airlines more than 1 billion passenger or traveller in 2008. The aviation industry needs or involves the large capital requirement for the aircraft, close keep an eye on for the rules and regulations of the government, competition from other tourist transport and for the high level of expertise to operate and manage.
In the Malaysian aviation industry, the airlines divided or separated in to two:
1). Passenger Airlines
2). Cargo Airlines
The passenger airlines are Air Asia, Malaysia Airline System Berhad (MAS), Firefly, and Loyang - Loyang Aerospace, Berjaya Air, Sabah Air and hornbill skyways. There are also three Cargo Airlines that operate in Malaysia which are the Athena Air Services, MAS Cargo and Tran smile Air Services.
In Aviation Industry in Malaysia is monopolized by two companies which are,
1). Malaysia Airlines System Berhad (MAS)
The Malaysia System Berhad (MAS) is operated full service national carrier that introduced in 1947 by the name of Malayan Airways Limited. This was the domestic airlines and then improved services and it turned into international airlines and MAS was incorporated in 1973. Now a day, MAS flew about 50,000 passengers daily and 100 destinations worldwide. It has 90 aircrafts for domestic and international flight and also 20 airbuses and 70 Boeing. MAS’ main base is at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIM).
2). Air Asia
In aviation Industry in Malaysia, the other service operator is Air Asia. It takes low cost budget. Air Asia has been introduced and expanding rapidly in 2001. It covers 61 destinations and flies 400 flights daily and it has 75 Aircrafts. Now a day, it has fly over 55 million passengers across region. In second quarter of 2009, Air Asia capacity growth of 22 % due to increase the number of route flight