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| January 28, 2010 | Malaysian budget airliner Air Asia to target two million passengers to India | | Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian budget airliner Air Asia, which will soon start services to five other Indian cities, has targeted two million passengers to India by next year, said group chief executive officer Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes. "We are proud to position
Kuala Lumpur as the gateway to India, and at the same time, it is India's gateway
to Asean," the New Strait Times quoted Fernandes, as saying after the launch of
the new routes by Transport Minister Seri Ong Tee Keat here on Tuesday. The
airline
will start daily flights to New Delhi , Mumbai, Bangalore , Hyderabad and Chennai
in the second and third quarters of this year. It will fly from Penang to Chennai
beginning on April 28, while flights from the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal to Chennai
will start on May 17, to Bangalore on May 20, to Hyderabad on July 20, to Mumbai
on May 6 and to New Delhi on August 4. This is in addition to its current services
to Tiruchirapplalli (Trichy), Kolkata, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram ( Trivandrum
). The flights to the four cities have received overwhelming response, with average
loads of 80 per cent. To mark the launch of the new routes, the airline is offering
all-in fares from as low as RM199 for the booking period from now until Jan 31,
for travel between April 28 and Oct 30 this year. Ong said with the new routes,
AirAsia and its long-haul sister carrier, AirAsia X, would be able to leverage
on India 's fast economic growth. | |
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