ASL Airlines Ireland (ABR, Dublin Int'l) will shortly add a maiden A330 freighter in the form of A330-300 EI-HEA (msn 116) Skyliner Aviation has reported. Formerly 9M-MKI with Malaysia Airlines (MH, Kuala Lumpur Int'l), the 22-year-old jet recently completed its passenger-to-freighter conversion with Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) and ST Aerospace subsidiary Elbe Flugzeugwerke in Dresden.

As the first A330-300 to undergo such a conversion, EI-HEA will be placed into service for DHL Express which has six firm conversions lined up.

According to the ch-aviation aircraft database, ASL Airlines Ireland's freighter fleet also includes four A300-600(F)s, six ATR42-300(F)s, fifteen ATR72-200(F)s, two ATR72-200(F)s, one B737-300(F), and six B737-400(F)s.