TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
AirAsia orders 100 Airbus planes to meet rising demand
Change Size
AirAsia adds 100 Airbus aircraft to its fleet to cater to increasing travel demand in the region. (Shutterstock/-)
A
irAsia has ordered 100 airplanes from Airbus Group to cater to increasing travel demand in the region, in a deal valued at US$12.6 billion based on list prices.
The addition of the new A320-series planes to AirAsia’s fleet brings the airline’s total number of aircraft purchased from Airbus to 575, Bloomberg reported, citing Airbus.
AirAsia founder and CEO Tony Fernandes said the Asia-Pacific region would dominate aircraft purchases for the next two decades. “The Asia Pacific is going to account for at least a third of all aircraft demand over the next 20 years,” he stated, “There’s particularly strong demand for intra-regional connectivity in Southeast Asia and North Asia, and then there’s very, very strong demand within China itself for domestic flights.”
Meanwhile, AirAsia was named the “World’s Best Low-Cost Airline” and “Asia’s Best Low-Cost Airline” for the eighth consecutive year at the 2016 Skytrax World Airline Awards at the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK, Tuesday.
The Skytrax Awards, also known as ‘The Oscars of the Aviation Industry’, is the international benchmark of airline excellence. It involves survey results on 41 key performance indicators of an airline’s services from over 19 million customers worldwide.
