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Rayani Air
IATA ICAO Call sign
RN RKT Blue Green
Founded19 January 2015
Commenced operations20 December 2015
HubsLangkawi International Airport
Secondary hubs
Fleet size2
Destinations5
Parent companyRayani Air Sdn Bhd
HeadquartersShah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
Key peopleRavi Alagendrran and Dato Karthiyani Govindan (founder)
Jaafar Zamhari (Managing Director)
Websitewww.rayaniair.com

Rayani Air (Jawi: راياني أير) is a full service airline in Malaysia. It was previously known that Rayani Air is a budget airline, however according to its official announcement in December 2015, Rayani Air is a full service air line that is similar to Malaysia Airlines.[1] It is the fourth airline in the world that has imposed application of Sharia-Compliant to each Muslim cabin crews after Royal Brunei Airlines (RBA), Saudi Arabian Airlines and Iran Air. In addition, no alcoholic beverages or pork are served on board in accordance with Islamic dietary laws and prayers will be recited before a flight departs.

History

Rayani Airlines was founded by Ravi Alagendrran and his wife Karthiyani Govindan, both of whom are Malaysians of ethnic Indian descent.[2] The name Rayani is said to be mashup of the first names of the founders.

Previously Rayani Airlines was set to be based at Malacca International Airport somewhere in late Q4 2014 with its inaugural flight to take place in August.[3] However they changed their base to Langkawi International Airport to attract tourists to the resort island.[4]

On 20 December 2015, its inaugural flight to Langkawi (RN600) took off smoothly despite a slight delay.[5]

Its Managing Director, Jaafar Zamhari announced a 10-year target plan to establish network, and planned to acquire another 2 B737-400 and 2 B737-800 in 2017, to increase its domestic routes and flight frequencies.[6]

In a article dated January 3rd 2016, Rayani Air is considering to appoint the Mursyidul Am (Spiritual Leader) of PAS, Datuk Dr Haron Din as its advisor, in order to advise the company on how to implementing the sharia compliance concept within the company. Besides than that, they are also planning to create a cooperation with Royal Brunei Airlines in order to strengthen the concept within the aviation industry.[7]

Destinations

Rayani Air current destinations are as follows (as on January 2016):

Fleet

Rayani Air fleet as in December 2015 as follows:

Aircraft In Service On Order Seat Configuration Notes
Boeing 737-400 1 3 12 Business & 120 Economy Former Malaysia Airlines aircraft. 2 more to enter service in 2017.
Boeing 737-800 - 2 TBA Entering service in 2017

References

  1. ^ "First Sharia-compliant airline, Rayani Air, launches in Malyasia" (in Chinese). Guang Ming Daily. 19 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Ethnic Indian couple launches Malaysia's 1st Islamic airline". The Hindu. 23 December 2015. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  3. ^ Airline News Asia. "Rayani Air".
  4. ^ BERNAMA. "New budget airline Rayani Air picks Langkawi as hub". FMT News.
  5. ^ "Rayani Air To Begin Operations Sunday". Astro Awani. Malaysian Digest. 19 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  6. ^ "Rayani Air sets 10-year plan". The Star Online. 21 December 2015.
  7. ^ "Rayani Air bakal lantik mursyidul am PAS sebagai penasihat". The Malaysian Insider. 3 January 2016.
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