More AirAsia flights to India

Kuala Lumpur: Buoyed by its successful foray into the Indian market with a direct service between Tiruchi and Kuala Lumpur, the low-cost carrier AirAsia is planning to operate service to more destinations in the country.
The airline’s service on Tiruchi-Kuala Lumpur sector has proved to be a commercial hit with the flights averaging more than 80 per cent load factor on both ways, right from the launch on December 1.
AirAsia serves the route with a 180-seater Airbus A-320 departing from the low cost carrier terminal in Kuala Lumpur.
“We are overwhelmed by the response to the service. We are considering a second frequency on the route,” Kathleen Tan, Head, Commercial, AirAsia, told visiting journalists from India and other countries recently.
New Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad are some of the potential destinations that the airline is looking at to introduce services, apart from a few tier-II cities. AirAsia X, a subsidiary of the AirAsia, would operate on some of these long haul sectors with flight duration of more than four hours. The no-frills airline’s low prices have indeed become a major attraction for families to think of foreign travel.
While other low-cost airlines have struggled and held back in the wake of the global meltdown, the AirAsia has remained aggressive.
The airline operates on 110 routes already and is adding more destinations even while rapidly expanding its fleet strength.
15/02/09 The Hindu

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Categories: Foreign Feb 2009, Low Cost General Feb 2009