✈︎ TRIP REPORT ✈︎ MASwings - DHC-6 TWIN-OTTER - Bario to Marudi

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Dear Trip Report and special aircraft fans,
today is your special day because you just came across this video in which I will take you on a quite special journey. We will be flying onboard the Malaysia Airlines rural services (operated by MAS Wings) within tropical Borneo. Our routing for today is from Bario Airfield (BBN) to the remote Marudi (MUR) airfield, both located in Sarawak, Malaysia.
Marudi is a logger's settlement in the midst of the dense tropical forest which is currently under severe destruction. You can make yourself a big picture of everything by watching and supporting this video!
Below you can find some more information on MASwings. But now, please sit back, relax and enjoy the flight with me! :-)

Cheers,
nolde10

MASwings Sdn Bhd (doing business as MASwings) is a regional airline operating the Rural Air Services (RAS) in East Malaysia. It took over the RAS previously operated by FlyAsianXpress. The first flight was on 1 October 2007, which is also the anniversary of the founding of Malaysia Airlines in 1972. Its headquarters are located in MAS/MASwings Administration Building, Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Sabah. Previously its head office was located in the Beautiful Jade Centre in Miri.

On 9 November 2007, MASwings (through its parent company Malaysia Airlines) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the purchase of 7 ATR 72-500s with options for 3 additional aircraft to expand its services in the states of Sabah and Sarawak in East Malaysia. MASwings received delivery of the first aircraft in 2008, second 6 aircraft in 2009 and remaining 3 (optional) by 2010. On 25 April 2010, its last F50 (9M-MGF) was retired from service.
On 28 February 2012, MASwings made an announcement that they will be replacing their ageing Twin Otters with newer planes, as the request had been sent to the Ministry of Transportation in 2011, and now awaiting final approval. The candidates for the replacement were Viking Air DHC-6 Series 400, Dornier Do 228NG (New Generation) and GECI SK-105 Skylander. However, with the Skylander project cancelled, it is likely that the candidates would be the Do 228NG and the Twin Otter Series 400.
On 18 December 2012, MASwings' parent company, Malaysia Airlines, ordered 36 ATR 72-600 for its subsidiaries. 16 of the ordered aircraft will be delivered to MASwings, while the remaining 20 will enter service with Firefly. For the replacement of the Twin Otter Series 300, six brand-new Twin Otter Series 400 aircraft will enter service in mid-2013.
On 25 July 2013, MASwings received its first ATR 72-600. However, due to cost reasons, all ATR 72-600s later retired from active duties and stored.