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  • Tune Protect and AirAsia to unveil travel protection for foreign travellers into Langkawi and Thailand

    Tune Protect and AirAsia to unveil travel protection for foreign travellers into Langkawi and Thailand

    In an industry first, Tune Protect and AirAsia have launched the Covid Travel Pass as an added convenience for air travelers to meet the mandatory insurance coverage set by the governments for fully vaccinated international travelers flying into the countries. Kicking off with Langkawi, Malaysia, and various tourist destinations in Thailand, the service will be expanded to include other countries and destinations in due course.

    Currently, travelers flying AirAsia into Langkawi, Malaysia, and destinations in Thailand can subscribe to the Covid Travel Pass when booking their flight tickets on the AirAsia super app, post-flight purchase subscription options are also available before travelers depart. The introduction of the Covid Travel Pass plans is timely as they also meet the year-end travel needs of AirAsia’s guests who wish to head to their much-awaited holidays and the impending opening of regional and international borders.

    The Covid Travel Pass plans are complete with enhanced COVID-19 coverage to satisfy the Malaysian government’s requirement for international travelers coming into Langkawi to have mandatory insurance coverage of USD 80,000 while for Thailand, the required mandatory coverage is USD 50,000.

    “As Malaysia and Thailand open their international borders, AirAsia is prepared to meet the rise in the pent-up travel demand especially towards the end of the year as a peak travel period. Traveling today comes with a new set of protocols and we want to reassure our guests that we are ready to welcome them with the right travel protection products provided by Tune Protect while observing strict and disciplined protocols to ensure the safety of our passengers in-flight and beyond so that they can have total peace of mind,” said Bo Lingam, Group CEO of AirAsia Aviation.

    AirAsia has spent a period of downtime in travel over the past one-and-a-half years to further improve and revamp its flight procedures and processes. In the highest interest of safety and well-being of all its guests and employees, AirAsia will accept only fully vaccinated guests onboard its flights, and likewise, ensure only fully-vaccinated employees will operate flights and be on duty at the airport terminals.

    Despite mostly not flying for a good part of the past 18 months, all AirAsia’s aircraft are properly maintained according to procedures set by the manufacturer. AirAsia has set up an in-house maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) unit called Asia Digital Engineering that provides services not only to AirAsia but also other airlines. Likewise, all its pilots and cabin crew are regularly sent for mandatory refresher courses and ongoing retraining so that they are always on top of their job.

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  • Full flight load to Langkawi signals strong rebound for domestic air travel

    Full flight load to Langkawi signals strong rebound for domestic air travel

    AirAsia’s inaugural service from Kuala Lumpur to Langkawi on Thursday (Sept 16) morning under the travel bubble recorded a 100% flight load, the carrier says, signifying a strong rebound for domestic air travel.

    The low-cost carrier said the maiden flight, the first of nine scheduled daily flights from Kuala Lumpur, left KLIA2 at 9.50am utilising an Airbus A321neo.

    “Aside from Kuala Lumpur (63 flights weekly), AirAsia also has flights to Langkawi departing from Penang (14 times weekly), Johor Baru (seven times weekly), Ipoh (three times weekly) and Kota Baru (three times weekly), making a total of 90 weekly flights,” it said in a statement.

    AirAsia Malaysia chief executive officer Riad Asmat said over 200,000 seats to Langkawi were sold in less than a week.

    “To facilitate this movement, we have prepared extensively and implemented robust and comprehensive health and safety protocols to ensure all of our guests can travel safely, with our 100% vaccinated crew and frontliners.

    “After months of preparation, we are thrilled to get the country flying again and are ready to scale up our operations to meet overwhelming demand.

    “We hope more travel bubbles will be established across the country soon in line with the accelerated vaccination roll-out, and eventually across the region when it is safe to do so,” he added.

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  • Najib launches AirAsia’s Langkawi-Shenzhen flight

    Najib launches AirAsia’s Langkawi-Shenzhen flight

    Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak launched AirAsia’s direct flight from here to Shenzhen, China.

    The new route is expected to further develop Langkawi as a world-class tourist destination.

    AirAsia Group chief executive officer Tan Sri Tony Fernandes thanked Najib for officiating the direct flight on Saturday.

    “Last year, the Prime Minister launched our direct flight from Guangzhou to Langkawi.

    “Leadership takes courage and it is courageous leadership shown by the Prime Minister to support AirAsia in reducing the airport tax which for years Malaysia Airports had resisted.

    “Today, we see that value of his brave leadership. Direct international tourists have increased from 83,754 in 2015 to 187,433 in 2016 – an increase of 120 per cent.

    “This represents a contribution of RM300mil to GDP, based on the 12 times multiplier effect,” Fernandes said in his speech.

    He said 2016 was the first time when international tourists outnumbered domestic tourists.

    “We are driven by this and already this year we have flown over a million tourists to Langkawi with our 238 weekly flights from Langkawi.

    “But we want to get to the three million mark and contribute a large part to the Langkawi Development Authority’s (LADA) target of RM9bil revenue.

    “Our vision is that we will make Langkawi as connected as Phuket, if not greater.”

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  • AirAsia now flies from Kuching to Langkawi, four times a week

    AirAsia today launched its inaugural flight from Kuching to Langkawi, operating four weekly flights on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

    AirAsia Commercial Head Spencer Lee said the airline is committed to continue growing the hub as Sarawak has a lot to offer beyond being a tourism destination.

    “Increasing connectivity into the state is important for us as it is also one of the top preferred investment destinations in the country, with the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE) attracting investors to set up manufacturing plants on ICT, agriculture, industrial and many more,” he said.

    “We have flown about 3.2 million guests in and out of the Kuching hub last year. We believe the introduction of the two new routes; to and from Kuching, namely Pontianak recently and Langkawi today, echoes our commitment in Sarawak,” he said.

    Speaking to the media at the airport’s VIP lounge here, Lee said AirAsia is expected to launch another new international route from Kuching by the end of this year.

    “We will be introducing one more new route, flying to an international destination from Kuching within these few months. We hope to create more routes next year,” he added.

    Meanwhile, state Tourism, Arts, Culture, Youth and Sports Minister Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said AirAsia has done plenty to bring in more routes and it is time for the private sector to play their role.

    “This is a good opportunity for us to attract those from Langkawi as AirAsia is the only airline that connect Sarawak to Langkawi now. We cannot expect the airline to introduce a new route and then assist us in promotion and marketing.

    “Hence, I hope the private sector, especially tour operators as well as the Sarawak Tourism Board, will take the initiative to promote and market Sarawak to the world,” he said.

    “We need more qualified and trained tour guides, commercial complexes as well as more private hospitals to be set up to boost our medical tourism,” he added.

    Karim also touched on negotiations to construct a Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) in Kuching with AirAsia, and said he hopes it will materialise soon.

    “We are still discussing and negotiating with AirAsia on the LCCT project. I will reveal more when things have being finalised,” he said.

    AirAsia now flies to 11 destinations from Kuching, with more than 220 weekly flights. Besides Langkawi, other destinations are Miri, Sibu, Bintulu, Kota Kinabalu, Johor Bahru, Kota Bharu, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Pontianak.

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  • AirAsia’s Shenzhen-Langkawi route starts Aug 9

    AirAsia’s Shenzhen-Langkawi route starts Aug 9

    AirAsia is expanding its connectivity by introducing direct flights from Shenzhen, China, to Langkawi starting Aug 9. Chief executive officer Aireen Omar said the concept of low-cost airline was introduced in Shenzhen with the aim of enabling more people to fly.

    “Now people in the Guangdong province are well-connected to the world through our extensive flight network of over 120 destinations in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the United States,” she said in a statement.

    Since its inaugural flight in 2007, the airline has flown 4.3 million guests in and out of Shenzhen, bringing in high local and international passenger traffic into the city.

    Celebrating its tenth anniversary flying into Shenzhen, China, AirAsia was now offering 35 weekly flights from Shenzhen to South-East Asia.

    The average load factor for this year for the three routes from Shenzhen recorded a performance of over 85%, placing AirAsia as the leading foreign airline, in terms of flight frequency and passengers flown into Shenzhen.

    To celebrate the occasion, AirAsia is offering all-in fares as low as RM256 from Kuala Lumpur to Shenzhen and RM257 from Kota Kinabalu to Shenzhen.

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