Christoph Müller: All new at Malay airline

Loss-making Malaysia Airlines is set to undergo a complete overhaul as it is restructured into a new company, with a rebranding that will be unveiled next week and changes planned to its fleet and network strategies.

Christoph Müller, who joined from Aer Lingus, said in his first interview since taking over as chief executive on May 1 that the new company would be like a “start-up”. A new name and livery are on the cards for Malaysia Airlines, sources told Reuters.

“I’m hired to run the new company entirely on commercial terms and there’s very little margin for error,” Müller told Reuters at the downtown Kuala Lumpur office of Malaysian state investor Khazanah, which took MAS private late last year as part of a 6bn ringgit (€1.51bn) restructuring.