Tag: flights

Retail Asia15/02/2024
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AirAsia expands services to Japan from its Bangkok hub by introducing direct flights from Bangkok Don Mueang airport to Okinawa, a popular holiday destination in Japan’s south. Four weekly flights to Okinawa will start on 2 April 2024, with services scheduled on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Known as the “Hawaii of Japan,” it’s well […]

Retail Asia09/08/2023
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AirAsia India will begin operating flights to Sharjah on behalf of Air India Express on August 28. This follows the carrier beginning to operate codeshare flights on Air India’s behalf earlier this month. According to ch-aviation schedules data, from August 28, AirAsia India will deploy one of its A320-200Ns onto a daily Delhi International – Sharjah – Varanasi – Sharjah – Delhi rotation, replacing the B737-800 service operated by […]

Retail Asia25/10/2022
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AirAsia X is increasing the number of its medium-haul Malaysian flights to 44 per week across 10 routes, while Thai AirAsia X will also be expanding its operations to 22 flights a week across five routes in the next two months. AirAsia X has recently launched direct services from Kuala Lumpur to South Korea (Seoul-Incheon) and India (New […]

Retail Asia12/07/2022
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Cebu Pacific announced its 7.7 seat sale on Wednesday. In an advisory, the budget airline said travelers can avail of a P188 one-way base fare for domestic flights. The booking period is from July 7 to July 11, 2022, with a travel period from September 1, 2022 to January 31, 2023. Alongside the domestic flight […]

Retail Asia12/07/2022
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Budget carrier Cebu Pacific said on Sunday it has expanded its Asia Pacific footprint with the resumption of its flights to Australia. With the easing of travel restrictions in the Philippines and Australia, Cebu Pacific has resumed its thrice weekly flights between Manila and Sydney. “With this route resumption, we are pleased to fly once […]

Retail Asia11/07/2022
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Philippines AirAsia will introduce more direct flights to Sabah and is considering establishing a hub in Sandakan as part of its expansion ambitions. The airline is currently studying the potential for direct routes to Kota Kinabalu from Puerto Princesa and Davao in the Philippines. A possible connection between Zamboanga and Sandakan is also on the […]

Retail Asia04/07/2022
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AirAsia Thailand (flight code FD) will launch direct flights to China and Hong Kong from its Bangkok Don Mueang airport hub starting 7 August. Initially, the low-cost airline will fly a weekly service but hopes to increase flights to twice a week in September and three times weekly in October. Promotional fares start at around […]

Retail Asia14/06/2022
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AirAsia plans to introduce Airbus’s innovative fuel-saving software modification known as Descent Profile Optimization (DPO) to its A320ceo aircraft commencing this month. The airline said the enhancement to the aircraft’s on-board flight management system (FMS) performance database offers the ability to generate fuel savings and reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The improvement has been previously introduced in LATAM Airlines’s operations, […]

Retail Asia25/03/2022
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AirAsia gears up for the nation’s reopening by adding more international routes to cater for significant pent-up demand ahead of Malaysia reopening borders to international travel 1 April. With the continued easing of travel restrictions, the airline group increased domestic flight capacity in Malaysia by 156% since October 2021, when it kickstarted the Langkawi travel […]

Retail Asia22/03/2022
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Beginning April 1, AirAsia Philippines is adding more weekly flights to the country’s top tourist destinations, including Boracay, Puerto Princesa and Cebu, after seeing a recent surge in bookings. The low-cost airline, in a statement on Friday, said that it will increase by at least ten times the weekly flight frequencies to Kalibo, Boracay, Iloilo, […]

Retail Asia03/12/2021
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Japan has softened its suspension of all new incoming flight bookings to make it easier for citizens to return, the government said Thursday, a day after it announced the move prompted by worries about the Omicron coronavirus variant. The transport ministry abruptly said Wednesday it was asking airlines to stop taking all new incoming flight […]

Retail Asia22/10/2021
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Vietnam Airlines is set to gradually resume flying on 40 routes, or nearly its entire domestic network, by next month, prioritizing Hanoi, HCMC and Da Nang. Several flights are set to be resumed to the southern archipelago Con Dao Island, the central highlands province of Buon Ma Thuot and the northern province of Dien Bien […]

Retail Asia13/10/2021
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AirAsia sees brighter skies ahead after Malaysia lifted interstate travel restrictions, with the low-cost carrier also pushing to restart international flights to Thailand, Sri Lanka and the Maldives as early as next week, its president told Nikkei Asia. Bo Lingam, AirAsia Group’s president for airline operations, said in an interview Monday that the company is “very relieved” […]

Retail Asia23/09/2021
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AirAsia Group Bhd is accelerating its digitalization by emphasizing new technologies and focusing on driving innovation across its entire portfolio of companies. The carrier’s engineering arm Asia Digital Engineering (ADE), ground handling division Ground Team Red (GTR) and logistics venture Teleport, are set to soar to new heights through digitization and data. “A silver lining […]

Retail Asia22/09/2021
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Vietnam Airlines is set to receive its final permit from U.S. authorities to conduct regular direct flights to the U.S. after nearly two decades of preparation. The national flag carrier has completed all necessary documents to be approved by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA), it stated. It is set to receive the permit from […]

Retail Asia08/09/2021
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Startup airline Bamboo Airways has completed the necessary procedures to begin its first direct flight to the U.S. starting Sep. 23, set to be the first Vietnamese airline to do so. The airline stated it has received licenses from U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to conduct 12 return flights between the two countries from this […]


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