In the July-Sept 2011 period, its revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) – the number of passengers flown by an airline multiplied by the distance travelled by each passenger – grew by 27.2% to 3.6 billion from a year ago.

Its capacity measured by available seat kilometres (ASKs), also grew by 17% to 4.5 billion, resulting in a load factor of 80% which was up by 6 percentage-points from the same quarter in 2010.

Cargo-wise, AirAsia X carried 9,220 tonnes in Q3, up 33.2% from a year ago.

For the nine months ended Sept 30 2011, AirAsia X carried 1.9 million passengers, up 42.6% from a year ago. It also posted a higher load factor of 80%, up 5 percentage-points from the previous year.

This brings total passenger traffic to 10.6 billion RPKs and 13.3 billion ASKs, a growth of 46.8% and 37.2% year-on-year respectively.

It also recorded an on-time performance of 89%, where flights depart within 15 minutes of schedule, for both Q3 and year to date.

“AirAsia X is expecting further growth in the final quarter of 2011, as it will be launching its flights to Osaka, Japan from Nov 30, as well as additional flights to Australia and Taiwan in December,” said AirAsia X CEO Azran Osman-Rani in a statement yesterday.

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SIA said the new carrier will “enable the airline to serve a largely untapped new market and cater to the growing demand among consumers for low-fare travel.”

SIA said on May 12 that full-year net profit rebounded strongly from the global recession as travel demand recovered.

The carrier said it earned Sg$1.09 billion ($873 million) in the financial year ended March 31, up fivefold from S$216 million a year ago while revenues rose 14 percent to Sg$14.5 billion.

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Chief executive officer Azran Osman-Rani said he was confident of getting the nod.

“We plan to start our Jeddah-Kuala Lumpur sector this year as the route is important due to the high passenger-load factor,” he told StarBiz after the launch of a partnership between AirAsia and the world’s leading online travel company, Expedia Inc, on Tuesday.
An AirAsia X aircraft at Paris’ Orly airport. The carrier is confident of getting the nod to fly to Jeddah — AFP

He said that for many years, the Saudi government was protective and unwilling to increase the number of flight frequencies between the two countries.

Previously, there were only four flights operated weekly by Malaysia Airlines but the frequencies were increased to seven times in the second half of 2010.

However, Azran said the Saudi government had reviewed its decision by increasing the landing rights for Malaysia to 28. Indonesia also has the same number of landing rights.
“We plan to recruit cabin crew from the Middle East” AIRASIA X CEO AZRAN OSMAN-RANI

“Malaysia has yet to fully utilise the new landing rights and we are ready to fill in the gap once we received the go-ahead from the Government,” he said, adding that Indonesia had fully utilised its rights with three airlines Garuda Airlines, Lion Air and Air Batavia plying the Jakarta-Jeddah sector.

Azran said the Saudi decision had to do with changes in the global aviation industry where flying was becoming affordable. It also wanted more of its citizens to be able to fly and, at the same time, attract visitors to the country.

He said Malaysia was popular with Saudi tourists, especially during summer months. They spend an average of RM8,000 per person per trip.

On the other hand, Azran said, between 60,000 and 100,000 Malaysian Muslims performed the umrah in Makkah annually and the airline wanted to tap this segment.

He said there were also about 30,000 Malaysians who travelled to Jeddah yearly on Emirates, Saudi Airlines, Sri Lankan Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Qatar Airways.

He added that the airline would increase its twice-weekly flights to Teheran, which it started in 2010, to four times this year.

Bernama reported yesterday that AirAsia X was also awaiting Government approval to fly to Sydney.

Via : TheStar

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AirAsia has launched direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Palembang, Indonesia, being its 13th destinations in Indonesia.

The flights are every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. For introduction, AirAsia is offering one-way fare from RM79for the route until March 20 for travel between May 4 and June 30, 2011.

For details, please visit AirAsia.

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AirAsia has launch another new routes direct to Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. New Zealand! Home of unbelievable landscapes featured in epic movies, intimidating islanders and the best milk cows. Though there is more to New Zealand than just that.

In conjunction with the luanching of this new route, you can fly to New Zealand starting from only RM 199 this 3 Dec 2010, 0700 (GMT+8)!

The Booking Period is from 3 December 2010 – 5 December 2010 and for travel period from 1 April 2011 – 10 November 2011.

Time to start practicing your Haka, but not before you book now!

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To celebrate this additional frequency, the airline is offering all-in-fares from RM29 one way for the travel period of Aug 25, 2010 to May 8, 2011.

“Guests are able to book this ultra low fare from July 14 to July 25, 2010 which is available exclusively online on www.airasia.com or mobile.airasia.com,” it said in a statement today.

AirAsia also flies daily to Brunei from Kota Kinabalu. — Bernama

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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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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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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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