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AIRASIA BERHAD
RedQ, Jalan Pekeliling 5 Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA 2)
64000 KLIA Selangor
T (03) 8660 4333 W airasia.com
AirAsia is the largest low-cost carrier in
Asia and services an extensive network of more than 380 routes to over 140 destinations across Asia-Pacific. Since its inception
in 2001, AirAsia has carried over 500 million guests via its hubs in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, India and Japan, and has grown its fleet from two aircraft to more than 260.
AirAsia has made waves in air travel across the region by providing affordable air fares - true to its
An AirAsia female pilot doing cockpit preparation.
An AirAsia Airbus A320 in flight.
motto, “Now Everyone Can
Fly” - sparking demand for
air travel and opening up
new destinations, routes and markets. The airline was a pioneer in using the internet and mobile phones for flight searches, bookings, check-in and ancillary services, and today boasts cutting-edge digital products such as its inflight entertainment and connectivity platform AirAsia WiFi, Asia’s money app BigPay and AirAsia BIG Loyalty programme.
AirAsia’s network is well supported by AirAsia X, Asia’s first true long-haul, low-
AirAsia X Premium Flatbed is equivalent to a business seat on a full service carrier.
cost carrier, which operates from Kuala Lumpur to 27 destinations, including China, Japan, South Korea, India, the Middle East, Australia and the US, as well as from Bangkok (Don Mueang), Thailand. AirAsia X was the first long-haul, low-cost carrier to introduce Premium Flatbed seats with standard business class specifications, installed across its Airbus A330-300 fleet.
In Malaysia, AirAsia operates from its hubs in Kuala Lumpur (KLIA2), Penang, Johor Bahru, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu, while AirAsia X operates from KLIA2.
Among its accolades, the airline has been named the World’s Best Low-Cost Airline 11 years in a row at the Skytrax World Airline Awards, known as the Oscars of the aviation industry. AirAsia has also been named the World’s Leading Low-Cost Airline for the sixth consecutive year at the 2018 World Travel Awards (WTA), where it also won the World’s Leading Low-Cost Airline Cabin Crew award for a second straight year.