AirAsia increases weekly flights frequencies from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok and Kunming

AirAsia Bhd (AirAsia) will be increasing flight frequencies from Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok, Thailand to Kunming, the capital and largest city in Yunnan Province, Southwest China.

Daily direct flight from Kuala Lumpur to Kunming will be increased to 14 times weekly starting December 19, 2017, while the daily direct flight from Bangkok, Thailand to Kunming will also be increased to 14 times weekly commencing January 16, 2018.

To celebrate the occasion, AirAsia is offering all-in-fares as low as RM179 from Kuala Lumpur to Kunming. Bookings are available from now to December 17, 2017 on airasia.com and AirAsia’s mobile app for iPhone and Android devices, for immediate travel until June 30, 2018.

AirAsia head of Commercial Spencer Lee said: “Five years ago, we launched our first route to Kunming with the aim to enable more people to fly. Since then we have revolutionised the air travel in Kunming and realised many individuals’ dreams to travel.

“Due to the rapid growth of China’s civil aviation, we are seeing more travel demands from the Chinese.

“Adding flight frequency is one of our commitment to grow China market and we hope more people can easily access to air travel with our low fares.

“They can also leverage on our Fly-Thru options to travel to more Asean countries and Asia Pacific. With more flights available, this will boost the tourist arrival in both cities, at the same time contributing to the development of China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ policy in increasing connectivity.”

He added, “China remains as one of our key markets. In this year itself, we have launched two new routes from Malaysia to China: Langkawi- Shenzhen, Kuching-Shenzhen. We are also looking at operating more new routes to China from our other hubs in Malaysia such as Langkawi, Kuching and Johor.”

AirAsia first launched Kuala Lumpur- Kunming daily direct flight on December 10, 2012, operating daily.

Shortly after a year, the airline also launched Bangkok-Kunming daily direct flight. Coming to its fifth years of operations to Kunming, the airline has carried close to one million passengers to and from Kunming Changshui International Airport, achieving itself as the largest foreign lowcost carrier in Kunming in terms of capacity.