Raya Airways


Raya Airways Sdn Bhd 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.
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 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

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 which operated aircraft transferred from their fleet.

Fleet

The Raya Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft :

AircraftIn FleetOrdersNotes
Boeing 737-400F10Replacing the B727-200F
Boeing 757-200PCF10
Boeing 767-200BDSF20operated for DHL Aviation

Destinations