AirAsia X Airline Declares Trips to London, Istanbul, and Dubai

AirAsia X (AAX) announces the airline will be flying from Kuala Lumpur to London, Dubai, and Istanbul at a grand launching today. 

Apart from that, the long-haul low-cost carrier also be taking few more routes to Japan and Hawaii which are on sale starting today. 

Currently, the airline is offering flights across seven popular routes from Kuala Lumpur to New Delhi, Sydney, Seoul (Incheon), Tokyo (Haneda), Sapporo (Chitose), Osaka (Kansai), and from Osaka (Kansai) to Honolulu.

All these routes are on sale from today until June 26, 2022, for travel between July 1, 2022, to March 26, 2023, starting from RM499 (all-in-fare one way) for economy seats and from RM1,499 for a Premium Flatbed.

Capital A president (commercial) Colin Currie stated that today’s announcement marks a new era for their long-haul affiliate AirAsia X which is resuming operations after a two-year hiatus, with refreshed branding to signal a fresh new start.

‘’We have many more destinations in the pipeline which we will announce soon, to meet strong pent-up demand’’ he added. 

AirAsia X chief executive officer Benyamin Ismail mentioned that the airline had submitted its wish list to Kazakhstan to allow them to exercise its fifth freedom flight from the Almaty to other destinations.

The Fifth freedom flight explains the right for a foreign airline to be able to fly to another country from a destination that is not its home base, and the group is planning to use Almaty as a centre point for the airline to fly to U.S. or Europe. 

(Photo sources: Twitter)