final November I wrote approximately how Malaysia Airlines is in the process of installing a current commerce class product throughout their A330 fleet.
Malaysia is greatly downsizing following the especially rough couple of years they've had. They're retiring all their Boeing 777 aircraft,leaving the A380 and A330 as their only longhaul planes. While the A380s have fully flat beds, the A330s feature angled seats as of now, and which aren't really competitive if they hope to gain any high yield traffic.
To try and become a bit more competitive,Malaysia Airlines is installing a current fully flat commerce class product. Malaysia is going with a pretty standard Vantage-style staggered commerce class seat, as you’ll find on Austrian, or Brussels,Delta, Jet Airways, or Swiss,etc. It's hardly cutting edge, but given that Malaysia primarily flies these within Asia and to Australia, and it's not like the plane is used for any loyal longhauls.
One major implication of this update is that the commerce class cabin is being reduced from 36 seats 27 seats,so presumably that will result in fewer award seats and discounted fares (then again Malaysia generally has abysmal load factors, so perhaps not).
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Source: boardingarea.com