Launch
The bookings for MYAirline was launched on 25 November 2022 and the scheduled flights for the carrier commenced on 1 December 2022.[2] The carrier, with a fleet of three Airbus A320 operated its inaugural service from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Kuching, Kota Kinabalu and Langkawi.[14]
During its initial operations, the airline recorded a high passenger load factor, with routes to Kuching and Kota Kinabalu gained an above 80% load factor and about 70% for Langkawi. There are also some flights that captured 100% capacity, with an average of 75% load factor throughout its network.[15] The carrier offered a once-daily flight to Kuching and twice flights per-day to Kota Kinabalu and Langkawi. By 2 December 2022, the flights to Kuching was increased to twice-daily. A third-daily flight was added to Kota Kinabalu and Kuching from 27 December 2022 onwards.
On 5 December 2022, MYAirline officially introduced routes to Kota Bharu, Penang and Sibu on its network. The flight was commenced on 10 December 2022 for Kota Bharu, followed by Penang by 23 December and 18 January 2023 for Sibu. The operations to Kota Bharu and Sibu are conducted on a twice-daily basis, while Penang has started on a single-daily flight, before being increased to twice flights per-day from 7 January 2023.[16]
The company's domestic route development was continued on 16 December 2022, following MYAirline's announcement to inaugurate two new destinations to Tawau and Miri. The flights to Tawau has been commenced on 21 January 2023, with a single-daily basis; while the flights to Miri will began on 1 March 2023 with one flight per-day before being increased to twice-daily flight from 15 March 2023.[17]
MYAirline's plan to serve Alor Setar and Terengganu will be initiated after the airline received the regulatory approvals.[18][2][8] While its international expansion to Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam was originally planned to be operated by March 2023,[19] has since being rescheduled to began by June 2023.[20] The carrier is projected to fly on destinations located within a four-hour flight radius from its origin, optimum for the low-cost carrier operations.
On 5 January 2023, the airline welcomed its 100,000th passenger, as well as logging over 600 flights across its network. Both milestones were achieved about a month after its inauguration on 1 December 2022.[21]
In April 2023, MyAirline introduced the Kota Kinabalu-Tawau flight on its network, becoming the first scheduled route in the company to be operated completely outside Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The month also witnessed additional frequencies from Kuala Lumpur to both Sabahan cities, with Kuala Lumpur-Kota Kinabalu flight being increased to four-daily operations and two-daily flights from Kuala Lumpur to Tawau. According to the MyAirline's CEO, Rayner Teo, the carrier has recorded more than half of its passengers flying towards East Malaysia and it is expected that the percentage will be increased within the next few months.[22] As of 2023, both cities remains amongst the most important destinations in the company, with flights to Kota Kinabalu being its most profitable and followed by Tawau.[23]
