Malaysia’s aviation traffic growth to moderate to 10% in 2014, says Maybank IB - The Malaysian Insider.

Malaysia’s aviation traffic growth to moderate to 10% in 2014, says Maybank IB February 17, 2014  Malaysia's aviation traffic growth will moderate to between 9 to 10% in 2014, premised throughout the fact that the industry will add 33% less aircraft than 2013, says Maybank Investment Bank (Maybank IB)

– Bernama, February 17, 2014. "Other factors like for example sustained gdp growth and the Visit Malaysia Year 2014 will be supportive of the growth," said the investment bank. The airline industry achieved a record 81% ratio in 2013, the first time it cracked the 80% mark. 1% year-on-year to 47. 5 million passengers made it the fastest–growing major airport in the world. 4% year-on-year in 2013, the highest within the world, and was Malaysia's best performance in 21 years.

In a note today, it said a majority of the aircraft were narrow–bodied with a lower seat count, while in 2013, most were large wide-body aircrafts with massive capaciousness.

The kuala lumpur International Airport's 2013 traffic growth of 19. It had maintained an "overweight" call encounter aviation industry and rated AirAsia to "top buy", AirAsia X (buy), Malaysian Airlines (hold) and Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd to (sell).

Passenger traffic growth soared 18. "As for Malaysian Airlines, it achieved the best year-on-year improvement, while AirAsia and AirAsia X both receded slightly last year," said Maybank IB.