Written by John Ollila @ LoyaltyLobby
AirAsia X, a chronically money-losing widebody operator based in Kuala Lumpur, asked this week its debtors to waive 99.7% of its outstanding obligations of 63.5B MYR. The shareholder’s equity is negative, and the company’s current liabilities of 3.38B MYR are more than double those of its current assets. The company, in essence, is insolvent. AirAsia […]
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AirAsia Japan halts operations
Written by Seth Miller @ Wandering Aramean
AirAsia Japan is dead. Again. The second iteration of the ASEAN discount carrier’s operation in Japan ceased operations on Monday, bringing an end to the three year run the carrier flew from its base at Nagoya.
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AirAsia Japan Ceases All Operations Effective Immediately
Written by John Ollila @ LoyaltyLobby
AirAsia Japan today made a surprise announcement that it would cancel all flights and cease operations immediately. This is the second time the AirAsia brand exits the Japanese market. The first incarnation was with ANA that was later rebranded as Peach. You can access AirAsia here. Here’s the announcement from the airline: AirAsia Japan Co., […]
AirAsia Japan halts operations
Written by Seth Miller @ PaxEx.Aero
AirAsia Japan is dead. Again. The second iteration of the ASEAN discount carrier’s operation in Japan ceased operations on Monday, bringing an end to the three year run the carrier flew from its base at Nagoya.
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AirAsia pivots away from its airline roots
Written by Seth Miller @ Wandering Aramean
“We have successfully pivoted from an airline to an all-in-one digital lifestyle company anchored on travel.” This was the key message delivered by AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes as part of the company’s Q2 financial results that showed a 96% drop in…
AirAsia pivots away from its airline roots
Written by Seth Miller @ PaxEx.Aero
“We have successfully pivoted from an airline to an all-in-one digital lifestyle company anchored on travel.” This was the key message delivered by AirAsia Group CEO Tony Fernandes as part of the company’s Q2 financial results that showed a 96% drop in…
Air Asia Has Now Scheduled Flights From Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Splitting Operations Between Both Local Airports
Written by Sebastian Powell @ LoyaltyLobby
As Air Asia has previously announced they have now loaded flights from Bangkok’s main Suvarnabhumi Airport from September 25, 2020 in addition to their core operations at the old Don Mueang airport in order to compete with other low cost carriers. Until now both VietJet and Scoot (international flights) have been been offering flights from […]
Air Asia To Split Their Bangkok Operations Between Both Local Airports, Offering Flights From Suvarnabhumi
Written by Sebastian Powell @ LoyaltyLobby
Air Asia has announced plans to start flights from Bangkok’s main Suvarnabhumi Airport in addition to their core operations at the old Don Mueang airport in order to compete with other low cost carriers. Right now both VietJet and Scoot have been been offering flights from Suvarnabhumi Airport while Air Asia exclusively uses Don Mueang […]
AirAsia’s Auditors Question Ability To Continue As Going Concern
Written by John Ollila @ LoyaltyLobby
AirAsia has experienced strong headwinds this week after its auditors in Kuala Lumpur issued an uncommon opinion doubting that the airline could continue operating as a going concern. The airline lost $66M in the fiscal year that ended on December 31, 2019, and its first-quarter loss through March 31 was $189M. The airline’s current obligations […]
AirAsia Unlimited Pass Cuti-Cuti Malaysia For Travel June 25 – March 31, 2021 (buy June 11 – 13)
Written by John Ollila @ LoyaltyLobby
AirAsia earlier this year had an interesting unlimited pass for international flights (read more here, here, and here) available for purchase. Now, the airline has launched a similar pass for flights within Malaysia between June 25 – March 31, 2021, that you can purchase June 11 – 13 for 399 MYR ($94). You can buy […]
Optimism on the horizon: The Weekly Wrap 15 May 2020
Written by Seth Miller @ Wandering Aramean
Is it time to start getting excited about a travel rebound? It appears the market finally hit rock bottom so everything that happens is good news, though maybe not too much of it too quickly.
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Optimism on the horizon: The Weekly Wrap 15 May 2020
Written by Seth Miller @ PaxEx.Aero
Is it time to start getting excited about a travel rebound? It appears the market finally hit rock bottom so everything that happens is good news, though maybe not too much of it too quickly.
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UPDATE: AirAsia Unlimited Pass Validity Extended Through June 30, 2021
Written by John Ollila @ LoyaltyLobby
AirAsia launched back in March an exciting product (read more here and here) especially for those living in Kuala Lumpur called Unlimited Pass. The airline was selling passes for merely 499 MYR ($119) each that allows unlimited travel for a year on most long/medium-haul destinations. AirAsia has extended the valid travel dates through June 30, […]
What Became Of The AMEX RAT Team, A Flight That Probably Never Happened Before, Retention Offer Changes?, & More!
Written by joeheg @ Your Mileage May Vary
Happy Sunday to all of our travel friends, both near and far. Yes, today is Sunday. Here are some articles we’ve read from other bloggers (and other sources) that we…
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AirAsia Fashion Inspired PPEs
Written by John Ollila @ LoyaltyLobby
AirAsia, a cash trapped airline in Kuala Lumpur, commissioned Los Angeles based Filipino designer to come up with appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for flight attendants to use. The airline put this new design to use yesterday on a repatriation flight of Filipinos from Bangkok to Manila. Here’s the release from AirAsia: AirAsia mounts special […]
AirAsia CEO Talks Refunds
Written by John Ollila @ LoyaltyLobby
Earlier this week, the CEO of British Airways sent out a warm and fuzzy email (read more here) to its frequent fliers in the UK that was very light on information. Today an email from AirAsia’s CEO Tony Fernandes hit many of our email inboxes and, while it tried to be inspirational, the main deal […]
AirAsia Unlimited Pass Update
Written by John Ollila @ LoyaltyLobby
AirAsia released on Saturday an exciting product for its BIG program members in Malaysia (read more here) and sent us more information about this product today. AirAsia Unlimited Pass allows members to travel for a 499 MYR fee unlimited number of times on AirAsia X and Thai AirAsia X-flights with few exclusions. You can access […]
AirAsia Unlimited Pass
Written by John Ollila @ LoyaltyLobby
AirAsia has launched an exciting product for members and those living in Kuala Lumpur that is available for purchase until March 7 and travel through March 2, 2021. The airline is selling an AIRASIA UNLIMITED pass for merely 499 MYR ($119) that allows unlimited travel for a year on most long/medium-haul destinations from Kuala Lumpur. […]
AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes, Din Meranun caught up in Airbus bribery scandal
Written by Seth Miller @ PaxEx.Aero
Last week’s news that Airbus will pay nearly $4 billion in penalties associated with a long-running bribery investigation was huge. This week AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes and Chairman Din Meranun find themselves caught up in the scandal as well.
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Putting AirAsia’s new GX WiFi to the test
Written by Seth Miller @ Wandering Aramean
Deploy quickly and work out the bugs along the way. That’s not a typical approach to anything in the aviation world, and for good reason. But for AirAsia’s GX Aviation WiFi deployment that’s the plan, even if it means some hiccups along the way, as wer…