New Delhi: Days before AirAsia starts its Indian joint venture airline with Tata Sons, the Malaysian low cost carrier (LCC) has decided to put Delhi and Mumbai back on its international network.
The airline had last year pulled out flights to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur from these cities, citing high airport charges at these places as the reason.
While Delhi had a daily flight to Kuala Lumpur (on AirAsia X) and Bangkok (on Thai AirAsia) each, Mumbai had four flights a week to Kuala Lumpur on AirAsia X. "AirAsia X will be retstarting routes to India very soon. Bombay, Delhi around the corner," AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes tweeted.
AirAsia India is going to launch operations with Chennai as the base with three to four aircraft initially. When Delhi and Mumbai make it to the JV's network is yet to be announced as Tony had indicated earlier that costly metro airports may have to wait for a while for AirAsia India.
13/04/13 Economic Times
