Raya Airways
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| Founded | 1993 (as Transmile Air Services) | ||||||
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| Hubs | Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | 4 | ||||||
| Destinations | 9 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport Subang, Malaysia | ||||||
| Key people | Mr. Lee Shashitheren (Director) | ||||||
| Website | www | ||||||
Raya Airways is a cargo airline with its head office in the Raya Airways Centre in the Cargo Complex of Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Selangor, Malaysia.[1]
It is an express freight and freighter charter company. The airline was established in November 1993 as Transmile Air. It has courier transportation services between Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia and services international companies such as DHL Worldwide Express, United Parcel Service, Air Macau and CEN Worldwide, among others. Raya Airways also provides aircraft charters and wet leases specialists with experience operating cargo flights around the world. Raya Airways was designated a National Cargo Carrier by the Malaysian Transport Ministry in 1996.
History
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Raya Airways began with one Boeing 737 and one Cessna Grand Caravan in providing air express transport service to Pos Malaysia Berhad for their courier business to East Malaysia in November 1993. It later developed into an international company and the only dedicated intra-Asian overnight express cargo operator in Malaysia. Their first Boeing 727 freighter service commenced in 2000 for the Kuala Lumpur/Penang-Bangkok-Hong Kong courier sector. It was an extended operation for their existing client, DHL International Limited. Over five years, owing to the increasing demand of freight services in the region, Raya Airways increased their Boeing 727 fleet to 10. As part of the strategy to expand their operations and network of connecting routes, Raya Airways acquired four MD-11s in 2005. They started the MD-11 operation for Kuala Lumpur-Hong Kong-Los Angeles sector in the third quarter of 2005.
From 2002 to 2006, Raya Airways provided air cargo service to Air Macau. Their subsidiaries are K-Mile Air of Thailand and now-defunct Megantara Air of Indonesia.Both of their subsidiaries operating aircraft transferred from their fleet.
Fleet
As of October 2015, the Raya Airways Sdn Bhd fleet consists of:
| Aircraft | In Fleet | Orders | Notes |
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| Boeing 727-200F | 3 | 0 | Operated for Raya Airways |
| Boeing 757-200F | 1 | 0 | Operated for Raya Airways |
| Boeing 767-200F | 1 | 0 | Operated for DHL Aviation |
Destinations
References
- ^ "Group Offices." Raya Airways. Retrieved on 11 December 2014. "Corporate & Finance Raya Airways Centre Cargo Complex, Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport. 47200 Subang, Selangor Darul Ehsan MALAYSIA"
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