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  • AirAsia eyes Vietnam launch, turnaround India and Japan units

    AirAsia eyes Vietnam launch, turnaround India and Japan units

    AirAsia Group chief executive Tony Fernandes says the group has no plans to establish new subsidiaries over the next three years, apart from a unit in Vietnam. In a series of tweets, Fernandes says the low-cost carrier will focus its efforts on launching AirAsia Vietnam, as well as making Indonesia AirAsia and AirAsia Philippines “very profitable”. Last December, AirAsia signed a memorandum of cooperation with Thien minh Travel for a Vietnamese joint venture.

    Meanwhile, AirAsia‘s Indonesia and Philippines units, which have suffered losses over the years, have had their financials incorporated into the Group since the start of 2017. AirAsia has said that it is planning for a secondary listing for its Indonesia operations in fiscal 2019.

    Fernandes is also expecting AirAsia India and AirAsia Japan to be profitable by 2021. AirAsia India is working towards launching international services while AirAsia Japan plans to start connecting to points in North Asia.

    “We have a great seam[less] franchise. Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam… All the major populations and growing economies. Coupled with two great countries to enable us to cover the world – India and Japan.”

    The AirAsia Group previously had plans to launch a China unit and signed a MoU in May 2017. The pact with China Everbright Group and the Henan Government Working Group however lapsed in August 2018.

  • Korean passengers break record in November

    Korean passengers break record in November

    Korea’s air passenger traffic reached a new record for November on the back of the rise in the number of Chinese tourists and increased overseas travel demand, government data showed Tuesday. The number of air passengers came to 9.57 million last month, up 5.6 percent from a year earlier, making it a new record for November, according to a tally from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

    The ministry attributed the surge to the return of Chinese visitors and the steady increase in overseas travel demand.

    Passenger traffic on Chinese routes spiked 24 percent to 1.32 million, slightly lower than the same month in 2016, when a row between the two countries over the U.S. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) missile system had yet to emerge.

    China banned the sale of group travel packages to South Korea in March 2017 due to a diplomatic row with Seoul over the deployment of a Thaad battery in Korea. China has since partially lifted the ban.

    International air passenger traffic rose 8.8 percent on year to a record 7.01 million last month, while domestic passenger traffic dropped 2.5 percent to 2.56 million, according to the ministry.

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  • AirAsia India offers 50% discount on round trips

    AirAsia India offers 50% discount on round trips

    Budget passenger carrier AirAsia India has started a discount offer of 50 per cent on the return leg of round trips booked via its website and mobile-based application (App).

    “The discount is available on airasia.com and the AirAsia mobile App from January 23 to 29, 2017 for travel between February 1 and April 30, 2017,” the airline said in a statement on Tuesday.

    “It (offer) covers flights operated by AirAsia India spanning all destinations including recently added Srinagar and Bagdogra.”

    The airline will start flying to Srinagar and Bagdogra from February 19.