Tag: traveling

Retail Asia19/02/2024
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At least one airline is planning on offering the Apple Vision Pro to some passengers as part of its in-flight entertainment offerings. Beond is a Maldivian airline that flies to five destinations and calls itself the world’s first “premium leisure airline” with business class service that includes gourmet meals, seats that fold down completely allowing passengers to […]

Retail Asia28/09/2023
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After restructuring its flight network, Bamboo Airways has said it will also reduce the number of aircraft to lower costs. An executive at the airline said the restructuring in the past two months included discontinuing unprofitable routes. The airline has not yet announced the number or type of aircraft that will be grounded. According to […]

Retail Asia28/07/2023
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Today Malaysia’s Capital A Berhad (Capital A) announced its operating statistics for the second quarter of its financial year 2023. The announcement details the performance of Capital A’s aviation, digital, logistics and aviation services segments from April 1st to June 30th, 2023 (2Q2023). With the operating segments so closely interconnected, a strong performance in Aviation […]

Retail Asia05/04/2023
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Australians have another way to get to Asia now AirAsia X restarted its Kuala Lumpur to the Gold Coast service yesterday. The nostalgic service retraced AirAsia X’s first-ever route, launched over 25 years ago. AirAsia X started the Kuala Lumpur to Queensland’s Gold Coast in November 2007, but it has been suspended for more than […]

Retail Asia05/04/2023
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Budget carrier Cebu Pacific is set to mount flights to the Ilocos Norte capital of Laoag starting May 22, making it the 35th domestic destination in the airline’s network. Cebu Pacific said flights from Manila to Laoag will be daily, as the airline seeks to tap travelers seeking to explore the Ilocos region. “Laoag plays […]

Retail Asia16/02/2023
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AirAsia Malaysia (AK) has resumed flights to China and unveiled its plans for the country. The popular low cost carrier will resume four China destinations from two hubs – Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu to Macao, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Kunming, with a total of 10 flights weekly and plans to increase the frequency by up […]

Retail Asia24/11/2022
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AirAsia X (AAX), the low-cost medium and long-haul airline of AirAsia Group, turned a net profit of RM25.1 million ($5.4 million), its first profit since 2019.  AirAsia X restarted its passenger operations in February 2022 and announced the completion of its 17-month-long debt restructuring scheme in March 2022. In its fifth quarter (5Q22) financial statement ending September […]

Retail Asia25/04/2022
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Online travel booking company Trivago has been ordered to pay $44.7 million in penalties by the Australian Federal Court for misleading consumers over hotel prices. The court found that in January 2020, the company deceived consumers through misleading misrepresentations of hotel room rates on its website and in television advertisements. Trivago had used an algorithm […]

Retail Asia08/03/2022
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The Court of Appeal of Malaysia has dismissed attempts from AirAsia (AK, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) and AirAsia X (D7, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) to set aside a High Court ruling in favour summarily – without a full trial – of Malaysia Airports Holdings over outstanding passenger service charge (PSC) payments, Malaysia’s Daily Express and The Edge Markets reported. A three-member bench unanimously […]

Retail Asia12/01/2022
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International travel is likely to recover soon despite progress being slowed by the omicron variant, according to AirAsia chief executive Tony Fernandes. “I do believe that we’re at the beginning of the end,” he said “Squawk Box Asia” on Monday, noting that the recovery has already begun in earnest. “The good thing is, this time last year, we […]

Retail Asia09/11/2021
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Domestic airfares are at their lowest levels in five years as demand remains low. Hoa of the central Quang Nam Province said: “I had to pay only VND370,000 ($16.37) for a flight from Chu Lai (in the central provinces of Quang Nam) to HCMC, a rate I have not seen in the last five years.” […]

Retail Asia28/07/2021
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AirAsia Group said its operating statistics for the second quarter of the 2021 financial year were improved during the quarter. All four key operating entities of AirAsia posted year-on-year (YoY) improvements during the quarter, on the back of a low base in the corresponding quarter last year as the group’s fleet were hibernated for the […]

Retail Asia01/07/2021
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Budget carrier Cebu Pacific, operated by Cebu Air, Inc., is sticking to its forecast of returning to pre-pandemic levels next year, saying it is “cautiously optimistic” given the current pace of vaccine rollout in the country. “To be honest, initially, when it started rolling out and we were monitoring the inoculation rate, we were pleasantly […]

Retail Asia05/05/2021
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The arrangement for quarantine-free travel between the two cities was due to begin on May 26, following two previous postponements. Singapore is reassessing plans for a travel bubble with Hong Kong after the city-state moved to reintroduce tighter social distancing measures amid a growing cluster of Covid-19 cases tied to a large public hospital. The […]

Retail Asia03/05/2021
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Tourism company Vietravel has already posted a loss of VND72.8 billion ($3.15 million) this year, or 81 percent of the loss it suffered in the whole of last year. Revenues fell nearly 65 percent to VND277 billion as the Covid-19 outbreaks in the first quarter hit travel. Its accumulated losses as of the end of […]


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