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More direct flights to Hangzhou on AirAsia X

February 11th, 2010 • admin • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

KUALA LUMPUR: Long haul budget airline AirAsia X will fly more people to Hangzhou, Shanghai, with direct daily flights beginning March 28.

AirAsia X will depart from Kuala Lumpur at 8.10am and arrive in Hangzhou at 1.10pm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and at 5.20pm every Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday.

The flight route is serviced by Airbus A330-300 with 383 economy seats including 28 premium seats.

“The response has been extremely good as our load factor has been above 70% on the Hangzhou-Kuala Lumpur route,” said AirAsia regional commercial head Kathleen Tan in a statement yesterday. She added that it takes only 75 minutes to go to Shanghai by bullet train.

Hangzhou is a major tourist attraction in China, which is well-known for its West Lake, Longjing Tea Fields and Six Harmonies Pagoda.

AirAsia has 198 flights weekly flying from various destinations in Asean to nine destinations in China including Hong Kong and Macau.

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AirAsia X Suspend flights to Abu Dhabi

February 2nd, 2010 • admin • 3 comments • Related • Filed Under

AirAsia X will temporarily suspend its flights to Abu Dhabi beginning Feb 21 in a bid to re-align its fleet to cover priority areas. The suspension is a counter measures which many said due to stiff competition from Etihad Airways. AirAsia X chief executive officer Azran Osman-Rani told they will fly back to Abu Dhabi at a later date. For the meantime they will focusing on the few new destinations in India. He added that AirAsia X need more frequencies, better airplanes and capacity before they can fly back to Abu Dhabi.

Currently, they fly with AirBus A330 and it has embarked on a seat refurbishment exercise and would be grounding planes to fit the new seats. They will get back to Abu Dhabi when the exercise completed.

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AirAsia fly to Chengdu, China

August 31st, 2009 • admin • 0 comments • Related • Filed Under

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AirAsia is introducing a new route connecting Kuala Lumpur to Chengdu from Oct 20 through its AirAsia X.
The four direct weekly flights come at all-in-fares as low as RM129 one-way. Reservations can be done online via AirAsia’s website at www.airasia.com or mobile.airasia.com.

The booking period is from Aug 26 to Aug 30 2009, for the travel period between Oct 20, 2009 and July 31, 2010.

AirAsia’s Regional Head of Commercial Kathleen Tan said: “Our China network has remained incomplete without a presence capable of unlocking the potential of travel to the western territories of China.

Chengdu is your gateway to XiAn, ChongQing and even Tibet. Chengdu is a home to China’s living natural heritage and famous with its icon the Pandas.

Get your tickets now.

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