Malaysia Airlines is selling its Airbus A380s on LinkedIn

A cash-strapped airline is taking an unusual approach to offloading its fleet of A380 planes, which each have a $400 million price tag.Malaysia Airlines’ parent company has taken to social media in a bid to find new owners for the cash-strapped airline’s six A380 jumbo jets.Malaysia Aviation Group announced a tender on LinkedIn to sell the aircraft or their components, with a list price of more than $400 million for one plane. However, some experts say the value of A380s – which are falling out of favour with the world’s airlines – was less than $100 million, Traveller reports.The move comes as Malaysia Airlines seeks to recover from the massive hit to revenue caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. RELATED: Eerie pics of A380s just sitting in the desertLast year the airline announced plans to restructure with about $5.2 billion in debt, which was completed in May.That month, group chief executive Captain Izham Ismail said offloading the fleet of A380s was part of the restructured airline’s plan. “We are cognisant of the challenges to sell this aeroplane, but we are still looking at ways and means to dispose of our 380 fleet,” he told Reuters.“At the moment, the management is convinced…
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