AirAsia to increase flights, launch new service to Vietnam

Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia will add seven more flights to its Kuala Lumpur - Hanoi weekly schedule from next month and launch a new route between Malaysian capital and Vietnam’s metro Ho Chi Minh City.

05/05/2007 12:05

Bui Duc Hanh, Hanoi station manager of AirAsia, told the Saigon Times Daily Wednesday that the airline would begin one more daily Hanoi-Kuala Lumpur flight from June 19 in addition to the existing daily flight on the route. AirAsia will use the 180-seat Airbus A320 aircraft for the additional flights, which are launched in response to an increasingly strong demand on the Hanoi-Kuala Lumpur run. To mark the inauguration of the extra flights, AirAsia will implement its airfare promotion from May 8 to 10 with a single trip from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur and Thailand's capital of Bangkok starting from US$15, exclusive of taxes and surcharges. The discount airfares will account for 25% of the seats on the daily flights that AirAsia currently operates between Hanoi and Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok. The airfares will apply from June 19 this year to March 29 next year. Hanh said passengers would pay the US$14 airport fee at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi with the tickets they purchase online at www.airasia.com and the airline's agents. AirAsia has carried nearly 105,000 passengers on the Hanoi-Bangkok flights since the service began in October 2005 and nearly 32,000 passengers on the Hanoi-Kuala Lumpur flights since October last year, Hanh said. Source: SGT

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