Summary
- AirAsia Malaysia is expanding its operations and adding latest routes, including its first-ever path to Australia starting in 2024.
- The airline is utilizing the Airbus A321neo to construct frequency and cater to growing demand.
- Perth is a proven marketplace for AirAsia, with strong passenger numbers.
Because the AirAsia Group throws off its COVID-19-induced financial shackles, its member airlines are rapidly adding aircraft capability, heading off on latest routes, or resuming the proven and profitable services they operated pre-pandemic. The strategy is working and proved itself again last week when AirAsia Malaysia announced that its first-ever path to Australia would start early in 2024.
Two AirAsia airlines on the identical route
With the most important fleet within the AirAsia Aviation Group, AirAsia Malaysia (AirAsia) is ideally placed to begin flying to Australia. The AirAsia brand is already well-known and well-received within the country as a consequence of the longstanding presence of AirAsia X. Interestingly, AirAsia has chosen Perth as its first Australian destination, a city already serviced each day by AirAsia X with its Airbus A330-300s. With AirAsia joining this route, we are going to see the addition of each day A321neo flights starting on March eleventh, 2024.
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Airbus has long promoted its family of aircraft as ideal for opening latest routes. The AirAsia Group is following that model by utilizing the A321neo and the A330 in tandem, which is able to construct frequency and open the door for more widebody services as demand grows. Granted, AirAsia and AirAsia X are standalone airlines in their very own right, but the general revenues fall into the identical pocket. Thus, utilizing the assets of each airlines on the identical route makes perfect sense on this case.
Perth Airport (PER) has been adding latest routes to Asia at a grand pace. With flight durations of lower than six hours, the addition of more flights with AirAsia provides Australians with seamless connections throughout Asia from Kula Lumpur International Airport (KUL). On the Australian side, Perth has been a consistently strong marketplace for AirAsia and attracts travelers across the spectrum, including for leisure, tourism, education, business, and visiting family and friends.
Perth is already a proven market
Between January 1st and October thirtieth this yr, roughly 30,000 AirAsia guests flew from Malaysia to Perth, with the highest five nationalities being Australians, Malaysians, Indians, Chinese and Latest Zealanders. AirAsia Malaysia CEO Riad Asmat believes now could be the correct time to expand the network into the brand new market in West Australia and that he
Photo: AirAsia
“We’re thrilled to announce our very first path to Australia, complementing the each day medium-haul operations by our affiliate airline AirAsia X. With latest specification aircraft models able to flying beyond the standard four-hour radius, this enhanced range facilitates prolonged connections between destinations, opening up latest possibilities. With the brand new model A321neo joining the AirAsia Malaysia fleet, including longer range capability, we at the moment are in a position to make these services to Australia a reality.”
The brand new service will operate as AirAsia Malaysia flight AK604/605 and depart each day from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 14:10 and arrive at Perth Airport at 19:50. It then departs Perth at 20:40 and arrives back in Kuala Lumpur at 02:40 the next day. Fleet data from ch-aviation shows that the low-cost carrier has 102 aircraft in its all-Airbus fleet, including 68 A320-200s, 29 A320-200neos, two A321neos, one A330-300 and two A321-200(P2F) freighters.
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