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- AirAsia Malaysia is expanding its operations and adding new routes, including opening its first Australian route in 2024.
- The airline uses the Airbus A321neo to increase flight frequency and meet increased demand.
- Perth is a proven market for AirAsia, with strong passenger numbers.
As AirAsia Group lifts its financial shackles from COVID-19, its member airlines are rapidly increasing aircraft capacity, launching new routes and refinancing the proven revenues they operated pre-pandemic. We are restarting highly sensitive services. The strategy is working, and it was proven once again when AirAsia Malaysia announced last week that it would launch its first-ever route to Australia in early 2024.
Two AirAsia airlines operate on the same route
With the largest fleet within the AirAsia Aviation Group, AirAsia Malaysia (AirAsia) is ideally placed to launch service to Australia. The AirAsia brand is already well-known and well-received in the country due to the long-standing presence of AirAsia X. Interestingly, AirAsia has selected Perth as its first Australian destination. Perth is already a city served by AirAsia X daily with its Airbus A330-300. . AirAsia’s addition to this route will mean the addition of daily A321neo flights from March 11, 2024.
Photo: Airbus
Airbus has long promoted its family of aircraft as ideal for launching new routes. AirAsia Group is following that model by using the A321neo and A330 in parallel, which will improve frequencies and open the door to wider services as demand increases. Become. Yes, AirAsia and AirAsia X are separate airlines in their own right, but their overall revenue is the same. Therefore, in this case it makes perfect sense to utilize the assets of both airlines on the same route.
Perth Airport (PER) is rapidly adding new routes to Asia. With a flight time of less than six hours, the addition of AirAsia flights will allow Australians to seamlessly connect from Kula Lumpur International Airport (KUL) to other destinations in Asia. On the Australian side, Perth is a consistently strong market for AirAsia, attracting travelers from all walks of life, including leisure, tourism, education, business and visiting friends and family.
Perth is already a proven market
From January 1 to October 30 this year, approximately 30,000 AirAsia guests arrived in Perth from Malaysia, with the top five nationalities being Australian, Malaysian, Indian, Chinese and New Zealand. did. AirAsia Malaysia CEO Riyad Asmat believes now is the right time to expand its network into new markets in Western Australia. “We look forward to introducing more lines to the region in the near future.”
Photo: AirAsia
“We are pleased to announce our first route to Australia, which will complement our daily medium-haul routes with our partner airline AirAsia This increased range will make it easier to extend connections between Australia.” “Reach your destination and open up new possibilities.” AirAsia introduces new model A321neo with long-range capabilities. By joining the Malaysian fleet, we can now make these services to Australia a reality.”
The new service will be operated by AirAsia Malaysia flights AK604/605 and will depart from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 14:10 every day and arrive at Perth Airport at 19:50. He will then depart Perth at 20:40 and return to Kuala Lumpur at 02:40 the next day. According to ch-aviation’s fleet data, the low-cost carrier has a total fleet of 102 aircraft in its Airbus fleet, including 68 A320-200s, 29 A320-200neos, 2 A321neos, One A330-300 and two A321-200(P2F) cargo planes. .
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Fleet data: channel airlines
