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AirAsia Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Aireen Omar, who earlier announced its third direct international flights from Langkawi to Shenzhen, China would commence operations on 16 July but will now take off on 9 August.
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Sky Bridge
- One of the icons of Langkawi not to be missed. This is the longest
free span and curved bridge in the world completed in 2004. The 125 metre
bridge is suspended from a single 82 metre high pylon held 100 metre above
ground. The bridge can accommodate to maximum capacity of 250 people at any
single time.
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Aireen first made the announcement of this thrice weekly flight (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday). at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 2017 in the presence of Minister of Transport, Dato’ Sri Liow Tiong Lai.
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Aireen
shaking hands with Liow. Looking on in white shirt is Langkawi Development
Authority CEO Dato’ Azizan Noordin.
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She
said, “We announced Langkawi as our international hub two years ago during the
last LIMA, and are proud to announce another international direct connectivity
that will further grow Langkawi’s position as a premier holiday destination in
the region.
“AirAsia
has always been committed towards expanding the markets that we operate in, and
Langkawi is no exception. The number of passengers flown year-on-year into
Langkawi has also
increased by 30% from 2015 to 2016.”
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| The Icon of Langkawi - The Eagle Has Landed |
“There
is so much potential for Langkawi and we know with the resources we are putting
in such as the marketing initiatives, we can expand the market demand for
Langkawi from Shenzhen. AirAsia looks forward to working with all parties,
especially from the tourism industry on both ends to ensure that we optimise on
this new route.”
Langkawi,
being AirAsia’s first route to be operated in 2001, currently serves five
routes with 106 weekly flights. Two of them are international destinations
(Singapore and Guangzhou) while the rest are domestic flights (Kuala Lumpur,
Penang and Johor Bahru).
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Shenzhen @ Nightscape
Shenzhen is situated just across the
border from Hong Kong and
it is a beautiful coastal garden city in South China.
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With
this new initiative, Langkawi is set to attract more tourist arrivals from
China as the island offers sun, sea and sand attractions.
Since its
inaugural flight in 2007, the airline has flown 4.3 million guests in and out
of Shenzhen, bringing in high local and international passenger traffic into
the city.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary flying into Shenzhen, China, AirAsia was now offering 35 weekly flights from Shenzhen to South-East Asia.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary flying into Shenzhen, China, AirAsia was now offering 35 weekly flights from Shenzhen to South-East Asia.
The
average load factor for this year for the three routes from Shenzhen recorded a
performance of over 85%, placing AirAsia as the leading foreign airline, in
terms of flight frequency and passengers flown into Shenzhen.
To
celebrate the occasion, AirAsia is offering all-in fares as low as RM256 from
Kuala Lumpur to Shenzhen and RM257 from Kota Kinabalu to Shenzhen.
Bookings
for this new route can be made on AirAsia’s website as well as AirAsia’s mobile
app on the iPhone and Android devices.
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Window of the World is one of the must
visit attractions. It is divided into eight regions of the World Square, Asia,
Oceania, Europe Area & The Americas.
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