Malaysia Airlines to go A380 daily on KL-London Route earlier than planned, and other A380 plans

It seems Malaysia Airlines have confidence in their A380 plan after commencing operations of the aircraft on the 1st July.

The new plan as of Monday (2nd July) is to take the Kuala Lumpur to London Heathrow route daily from the 12th August (from an original daily date of 25th August)

The revised schedule (along with the other Kuala Lumpur to London Heathrow service) is below:

Kuala Lumpur to London Heathrow

MH004 DEPART KUL 10:05  ARRIVE LHR 16:15   Boeing 747-400
MH002 DEPART KUL 23:40  ARRIVE LHR 05:50+1 Airbus A380

Operates daily with equipment specified from 12th August 2012

London Heathrow to Kuala Lumpur

MH003 DEPART LHR 12:00  ARRIVE KUL 07:25+1 Airbus A380
MH001 DEPART LHR 22:00  ARRIVE KUL 17:25+1 Boeing 747-400 

Operates daily with equipment specified from 12th August 2012

Malaysia Airlines have already got plans for to operate it’s 4th and 5th A380s, with one of the doing the Kuala Lumpur – Tokyo Narita turn with a planned commencement date of 25th November 2012 and Kuala Lumpur – Beijing from 1st March 2012.

As they’re planned and are still subject to approval, they’re not in the booking systems as yet.

For those of you in the dark, yesterday Malaysia Airlines commenced service with the A380 on the 1st July on the KL to London run, operating the aircraft in the following configuration:

• First Class on the main deck, 8 seats, 89″ seat pitch, a 1-2-1 seating  configuration
• Business Class on the Upper Deck, 66 seats,  74″ seat pitch, in a 2-2-2 seating configuration
• Economy Class on both the Upper and Main deck (420 total):
• Upper Deck – 70 seats, 32″ seat pitch  2-4-2 seating configuration
• Lower Deck – 350 seats, 32″ seat pitch  3-4-3 seating configuration
• Total passenger seats: 494

A very nice configuration, with an increasingly rare sight of economy on the top deck of an A380….