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Latest archived mark · 2021

Malaysia Airlines

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Latest archived mark · 2012

AirAsia

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What we compare	Malaysia Airlines	AirAsia
Country in archive	Malaysia	Malaysia
Founded	1972	December 20, 1993
Founder	Government of Malaysia	DRB-HICOM
Headquarters	Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia	Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia
Name origin	The airline's name is the country's name plus a generic word. It was Malayan Airways, then Malaysian Airways after Malaysia was formed in 1963, then Malaysia-Singapore Airlines, then Malaysian Airline System (MAS) in 1972, and later simply Malaysia Airlines.	The name is a plain combination of the English words Air and Asia, describing an airline serving Asian destinations. The sources used here do not record who chose it or when.
Highlights	Kuala Lumpur International Airport hub, Airbus A350, Airbus A380, Boeing 737-800	Low-cost scheduled flights, Kuala Lumpur International Airport Terminal 2 hub, Teleport cargo
Earliest archived brand logo	1972	1996
Latest archived logo	2021	2012
Archived logo assets	5	4

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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