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Air Asia X, a low-cost airline based in Kuala Lumpur has confirmed to start flight to and from Adelaide International Airport starting on October 30. This is the 5th Air Asia X destination in Australia. The airline will fly the Airbus A330-300 to and from Adelaide. "Now EVERY Adelaidian can Fly!"
Air Asia X Spreads Wings into Adelaide
Malaysian long-haul airline AirAsia X will boost its presence on routes to Australia in October when it begins four flights a week to Adelaide.
In a further challenge to Jetstar, AirAsia X will begin flights between Adelaide and Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, on October 30. The South Australian capital will become AirAsia X’s fifth Australian destination after Sydney, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Perth.
AirAsia X chief executive Azran Osman-Rani said the Australian market was one of the airline’s core markets and starting services to Adelaide had been a priority.
‘Our goal since launching our first Australian service on the Gold Coast in 2007 was to operate in the five major states, and we are proud to have accomplished this within six years,” he said.
AirAsia’s ability to boost capacity on routes to Australia has hinged on the delivery of new aircraft. Its fleet will increase in number from 10 to 32 aircraft by 2016.
The airline will fly Airbus A330-300 planes, which are seated to carry 377 passengers, on the Adelaide-Kuala Lumpur route.
AirAsia X and its parent AirAsia are in a race with Jetstar and Singapore Airline’s long-haul budget offshoot, Scoot, for scale in Asia, or what it has described as a ‘‘real-estate game’’.
In May, AirAsia X outlined plans to increase the number of services to Melbourne and Sydney from one to two flights a day, and to Perth from nine flights a week to 14.
The AirAsia long-haul offshoot gave details of the plans in an initial prospectus filed with Malaysia’s Securities Commission. AirAsia X has previously aimed for twice-daily flights from Kuala Lumpur to each of these capital cities by the end next year.
Air Asia X Spreads Wings into Adelaide
Malaysian long-haul airline AirAsia X will boost its presence on routes to Australia in October when it begins four flights a week to Adelaide.
In a further challenge to Jetstar, AirAsia X will begin flights between Adelaide and Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, on October 30. The South Australian capital will become AirAsia X’s fifth Australian destination after Sydney, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Perth.
AirAsia X chief executive Azran Osman-Rani said the Australian market was one of the airline’s core markets and starting services to Adelaide had been a priority.
‘Our goal since launching our first Australian service on the Gold Coast in 2007 was to operate in the five major states, and we are proud to have accomplished this within six years,” he said.
AirAsia’s ability to boost capacity on routes to Australia has hinged on the delivery of new aircraft. Its fleet will increase in number from 10 to 32 aircraft by 2016.
The airline will fly Airbus A330-300 planes, which are seated to carry 377 passengers, on the Adelaide-Kuala Lumpur route.
AirAsia X and its parent AirAsia are in a race with Jetstar and Singapore Airline’s long-haul budget offshoot, Scoot, for scale in Asia, or what it has described as a ‘‘real-estate game’’.
In May, AirAsia X outlined plans to increase the number of services to Melbourne and Sydney from one to two flights a day, and to Perth from nine flights a week to 14.
The AirAsia long-haul offshoot gave details of the plans in an initial prospectus filed with Malaysia’s Securities Commission. AirAsia X has previously aimed for twice-daily flights from Kuala Lumpur to each of these capital cities by the end next year.
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