AirAsia lands in India’s Silicon Valley

With this launch, Bangalore becomes the seventh destination for AirAsia in India after Trivandrum, Kolkata, Chennai, Kochi Tiruchirappali and Mumbai. AirAsia is offering all in fares from as low as RM 25* to guests traveling from Bangalore as part of its recently announced promotion offer of one million free seats. Bangalore, as part of AirAsia’s global network will be part of the free seats campaign, which are available for potential travelers to the city.

AirAsia will be operating its brand new Airbus A320 aircraft on the Kuala Lumpur-Bangalore route, with 100% load on its inaugural flight to and from Kuala Lumpur today. The sector is already witnessing a load factor of almost 85% in the first few weeks.

Speaking about the launch, Ms. Kathleen Tan, Regional Head of Commercial, AirAsia said, “We are excited to launch our services between Kuala Lumpur and Bangalore. The daily service is expected to cater to significant traffic including business and leisure travelers as well as students to and from the tech-hub in Southern India. In addition to this, the service is also expected to cater to and promote medical tourism in the city of Bangalore. AirAsia foresees a huge demand from the health sector with patients seeking medical assistance from institutions based in Bangalore.”

On its inaugural flight from Kuala Lumpur, AirAsia carried 15 children with Congenital Heart Disease requiring an open heart surgery. The children will be operated upon at Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Institute, Bangalore, the largest heart hospital for children in the world.

AirAsia has a strong domestic high frequency network that enables the people from India to connect to Malaysia and visit beautiful places like Langkawi, Sabah, Sarawak and tap on our incredible network using Kuala Lumpur as a gateway to the many points served by AirAsia to ASEAN destinations and beyond such as China (Hangzhou, Guilin, Tianjin, Chegdu, Haikou, Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen) Australia (Gold Coast, Melbourne and Perth), Taiwan (Taipei), Europe (London) and many more.

Free Seats Promo: The booking period for the Free Seat promo is from 18th – 23rd May 2010 for the travel period from 3rd January – 8th May 2011. Promotional seats are limited and available on first-come, first-served basis and made exclusively online via www.airasia.com and mobile.airasia.com.

To add value, AirAsia, under its one stop travel portal - AirAsiaGo at www.airasiago.com is also offering some great online hotel deals to stretch the dollar where guests can choose their holiday lodgings from over 70,000 hotels, tour packages and ground transfers. Guests are also encouraged to purchase food, baggage online to enjoy more discounts and savings through www.airasia.com.

Flight Schedule KUALA LUMPUR – BANGALORE

Flights From Departure/ Arrival Flight No. Frequency

Kuala Lumpur to Bangalore 15:10 / 16:35 AK 211 Daily

Bangalore to Kuala Lumpur 17:15 / 23:40 AK 212 Daily

* One way fare / only pay airport taxes