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Airlines Air Asia plans to expand operations
Our Bureau New Delhi, April 1 The Malaysian low-cost airline, Air Asia, not only plans to launch a second daily service between Kuala Lumpur and Tiruchi from October this year but also plans to expand its footprint around the country, a senior airline official has said. Expansion plans“We are looking at expanding to India in 2009-10.While we will fly 14 times-a-week from October this year between Tiruchi and Kuala Lumpur, the airline is in the last stages of determining which other sectors it should operate to in India,” the airline’s Network Management officer, Ms Subashini Silvadas, told Business Line on the sidelines of the recently concluded Routes conference. The airline will not like to be in primary market such as Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Bangalore, Hyderabad among others she said. “For some cities like Chennai for which there is potential, the airline will look to operate a daily service from the beginning. For other cities, we will have to take a call on how many times a week the airline should fly,” she added. In addition, Air Asia X, a subsidiary of Air Asia , will look at operations in to Mumbai and Delhi “We hope to have the flights in place end of this year and next year,” Ms Silvadas added. While Air Asia offers seating only in economy class, Air Asia, will operate the larger Airbus A-330 aircraft and will give the passenger the option of travelling in either business or economy class. More Stories on : Airlines
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