AirAsia
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| IATA code : | AK |
| ICAO code : | AXM |
| Call sign : | RED CAP |
| Founding: | 1993 |
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Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
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| Home airport : | Kuala Lumpur |
| Company form: | Berhad |
| IATA prefix code : | 807 |
| Management: | Aireen Omar ( CEO ) |
| Fleet size: | 95 (+ 364 orders) |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.airasia.com |
AirAsia Bhd. is a Malaysian low-cost airline based in Kuala Lumpur and based at Kuala Lumpur Airport .
history
AirAsia was founded in 1993 and started flight operations on November 18, 1996. On December 2, 2001, the heavily indebted airline was sold by DRB-HICOM for the symbolic price of a ringgit to Tony Fernandes owned Tune Air Sdn Bhd. In 2002 the former Warner Music manager Fernandes was able to make a profit with the airline, expanded the route network and attacked the monopoly of Malaysia Airlines .
In 2003, Senai Airport in Johor Bahru , Malaysia became the airline's second hub. AirAsia started scheduled flights to Thailand and founded the subsidiary Thai AirAsia . It also offered flights to Singapore and Indonesia for the first time, and to Macau in 2004 . Since April 2005 she has also been flying to mainland China ( Xiamen ) and the Philippines ( Manila ).
Thai AirAsia's hub is in Bangkok. Among other things, it serves the route Bangkok - Phuket as well as other routes in, from and to Thailand. Another airline belonging to AirAsia is the Indonesian Indonesia AirAsia (formerly Awair) with a hub in Jakarta and AirAsia X , which offers long-haul flights from Kuala Lumpur, primarily to Australia , the People's Republic of China , India and Japan . The temporary connections to London and Paris were discontinued in March 2012.
On June 23, 2011, Airbus and AirAsia announced an order for 200 A320neo at the Paris Airshow . According to list price, these were by a value of 18.2 billion US dollars . The A320neo are powered by CFM's LEAP-X engines . This was the largest order in A320 history, topped only in October 2014 by Indian IndiGo with an order for 250 aircraft.
As of August 31, 2011, AirAsia and the Japanese airline All Nippon Airways founded a low-cost airline called AirAsia Japan, with All Nippon Airways holding 67% and AirAsia 33% of the shares. Operations started in August 2012. In 2013 AirAsia withdrew from the joint venture, which then changed its name to Vanilla Air on November 1, 2013 as a 100% subsidiary of ANA . In October 2017, AirAsia returned to the Japanese market with a second airline called AirAsia Japan .
Destinations
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AirAsia operates domestic and international scheduled flights and is Asia's largest low-cost airline. The hubs are Kota Kinabalu , Kuala Lumpur and Penang .
fleet
Current fleet
As of March 2020, the AirAsia fleet consists of 95 aircraft with an average age of 5.5 years:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats | Average age
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| Airbus A320-200 | 64 | 31 Sharklets equipped | 180 | 7.1 years | |
| Airbus A320neo | 29 | 13 | 186 | 4.2 years | |
| Airbus A321neo | 2 | 351 | 236 | 0.4 years | |
| total | 95 | 364 | 5.5 years |
Former aircraft types
In addition, AirAsia used the following aircraft types in the past:
Subsidiaries
See also
Web links
- AirAsia website of the (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ First A320 Neo delivered from China , accessed on October 26, 2017
- ↑ aerotelegraph.com - AirAsia X drops Europe. Retrieved August 11, 2012
- ↑ Flugrevue.com - Paris Air Show: Record order for 200 Airbus A320neo from AirAsia, accessed on June 27, 2011
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt - Record order secures Airbus' Asian business, October 15, 2014, accessed on October 27, 2014
- ↑ godmode-trader.de - All Nippon Airways and AirAsia jointly found low-cost airline, July 21, 2011, accessed on September 3, 2015
- ↑ http://www.airasia.com/ot/en/where-we-fly/route-map.page (link not available)
- ↑ a b AirAsia Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. April 7, 2020, accessed April 19, 2020 (English).
- ↑ AirAsia upsizes A320neo or larger A321neo. In: airbus.com. Accessed August 13, 2019 .
- ↑ AirAsia fleet details , accessed on October 26, 2017
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AirAsia • AirAsia India • AirAsia Japan • AirAsia X • Indonesia AirAsia • Indonesia AirAsia X • Philippines AirAsia • Thai AirAsia |
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