daz211

AirAsia, The First Airline In The World To Abolish Fuel Surcharges

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 November 2008 – AirAsia, the leading and largest low cost carrier in Asia today will be the first in the world to abolish fuel surcharges from all its international and domestic flights. The airline is dedicated to making travel more affordable and accessible for everyone. Beginning today, guests flying with AirAsia and AirAsia X will only have to pay our low fares, airport taxes and administration fees.

Hello ever heard of Ryanair .

Localiser Green

Ryanair never had fuel surcharges - so technically the statement that AirAsia are the first to abolish fuel surcharges is correct.

After all, how could Ryanair do that, when they never had them in the first place?

groundhogbhx

I love the term 'guests'. To me that means people who are invited to travel, usually for free. After all when was the last time you were invited to be a guest anywhere and pay for the privilege

VAFFPAX

Groundhog, you are a guest in a hotel and you usually pay there for the privilege... :-)

S.

harrogate

Spot on.

It's marketing, dahling.

Done the job too, evidently.

jamzjamzjamz

I just booked a flight from KL-STN. £113 including checked luggae and meal for July. What a deal!

GLENO

You can get a return for £199 in June showing on the website inc Tax!

brown1950

Are you coorect when you say incl of taxes. Website says fares are exclusive of taxes.

Example 22/5 to 27/5 £225.00 no taxes shown ? Are these added after you provide CC details ?

tommyc2005

Brown - the fares are inclusive of tax. They show up as £49 out and £69 back or something similar, but the total on the right will show £198 total.

daz211

Im so happy, I have just booked 1 x RTN flight STN-SIN in May/Jun
for £240 all tax inc .

I hope AirAsiax advertise on UK TV and in the national Press.

BA wanted £770 , I could do the same trip 3x for that .

WHBM

I've had a detailed look at the Air Asia proposed timings, because I couldn't quite believe they were going to get 5 round trips a week KL-London with one A340. But they certainly are attempting to.

Always 90-minute turnrounds in London, at the end of a 13.5-hour sector. Most turnrounds in KL only marginally longer. Just one stop a week is 12 hours. Planned utilisation up at 19.3 hours a day.

With one secondhand aircraft (ex-Air Canada apparently) this sounds like a recipe for periodic chaos, especially as A340 maintenance will be new to teams at both ends of the route. One diversion or significant dispatch delay and they will be finished; the only recovery would be to cancel a round trip. Unlike short-haul low-costs who have a chance to recover overnight when things go pear shaped, this aircraft just goes on and on at constant utilisation.

I really would have advised in their initial few months, at least, just 4 round trips a week, and a softer schedule.

harrogate

Hold your horses, because a very reliable source told me when I did some digging last week that Air Asia were on the cusp of completing a lease deal on a second A340. I think the announcement of the commencement of the London service hinged on the securing of the second plane, so brace yourself for an announcement of a second A340 in the not too distant future.

Dicky's trimmed the frequency on some of his routes too. Given that he owns 20% of Air Asia X, any chance one of his 300s could be sat in the wings?

daz211

Well flights must be selling well, the £99 flights have gone
and the lowest I can find now are £221.

harrogate

Plenty of £171 fares that I can see.

Nothing lower than £200ish for Easter though, which was inevitible.

daz211

I have been informed that AirAsia's additional flight will depart STN at 2100 and the later flight will move to an earlier time of 2300 it was 0125.
Is there enough demand for 2 x A340's departing STN within 2hrs ?

How is the current flight doing any numbers out there ???

Seljuk22

STN-KUL, A340-300 (286 seats), daily flights

July: 14,941 passengers > load factor: 84.3%
August: 16,291 > 91.9%
September: 15,291 > 89.1%

Bagso

..clearly time to add Manchester !

daz211

AirAsia is elated at the announcement by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak regarding the granting of Paris landing rights to AirAsia by the French government. We now await more details from the authorities.

Sunstar320

Considering all the discounting going on in these few months, those figures are brilliant. Just wait till they put in their A333 equivalent of a seat on their A340's..

Will be interesting to see what US destination they will add soon. Considering their marketing with the Oakland Raiders, it would be bizarre if they didn't fly there anytime soon.