Malaysia Airlines will ground two Airbus A380 jetliners deployed on the daily Kuala Lumpur-Paris route in early June as part of the struggling flag carrier’s plan to consolidate its network. MAS plans to offer the aircraft for lease on the open market and downgrade the equipment used on the Paris flight to Boeing 777-200ERs.

Of its fleet of six A380s, the airline uses four on its twice-daily Kuala Lumpur-London Heathrow sector. Turkish Airlines had earlier turned down MAS’s offer to wet-lease two A380s to the carrier.

On the proposed plan to put up two A380s for lease in the open market, MAS told AIN in an email statement that the carrier remains in the process of finalizing its network and fleet requirements.

“We are exploring various options for the A380 with preliminary discussions held with several parties as part of the plan,” the statement added.

Turkish Airlines maintains an ongoing one-year wet-lease contract involving an MAS Airbus A330-200F. Negotiations to extend the lease, which ends on June 30, have reached their final stages.

MAS operated an A380 on one of its three-times-daily Hong Kong flights for several months last year but discontinued the service on the superjumbo due to insufficient passenger loads. The Australian authorities rejected MAS’s application in 2013 to operate the aircraft on the Kuala Lumpur-Sydney route as Malaysian low cost carrier Air Asia X won the rights to operate 10 Airbus A330-300 flights a week, for a total of 3,500 seats.

In a separate statement, MAS said it would drop 777-200ER service to Frankfurt.