Malaysian Airline posts $149m loss in 3Q
Malaysian Airline System swung to a third-quarter net loss of US$149.98 million from a profit of $73.29 million a year ago, due to higher fuel costs and an unrealised foreign-exchange loss, reported Reuters.
Revenue was 4.9 percent higher at $1.13 billion from a year earlier.
The airline said its fourth-quarter operational results would be worse than the third quarter as high fuel prices and a weak economic outlook in Europe hurt its business.
"Management is embarking on a significant network rationalisation exercise to withdraw structurally weak, loss-making routes, and to possibly embark on new higher yielding routes focusing on Asia," it said in a statement.
"We expect the full impact of these initiatives to begin bearing fruit in 2012."
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