AirAsia.com integrates with Akbar Travels
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Mumbai: 14 January, 2010: AirAsia, the world’s leading low-cost airline, today announced integration of its website AirAsia.com with AkbarTravelsOnline.com, the travel website operated by India’s leading travel house - Akbar Travels of India Pvt. Ltd. Guests will now be able to book AirAsia flights online from akbartravelsonline.com.
AirAsia recently launched three new routes from Kuala Lumpur to Kolkata, Kochi and Trivandrum which opened for sale on 15th October 2009. Since the opening of these routes less than two months ago, AirAsia has experienced an overwhelming response, with nearly 100,000 seats being sold. Alongwith the above mentioned routes AirAsia also operates two daily flights from Kuala Lampur to Trichy in Tamilnadu and is the first airline in South East Asia to fly directly to the city. AirAsia plans to increase its network in India in future by adding destinations like Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai.
Speaking on the integration, Mr. Vijay Kesavan, CEO, Akbar Travels Online stated: “We are happy to announce the integration of AirAsia website with our online travel portal. Through this integration, we seek to give personalized service to our flyers. Akbar Travels Online is proud to be the 1st travel portal in India to be integrated with AirAsia website. We are sure this connectivity will help us to bring all the attractive offers and low fares available on AirAsia network live on our website for the benefit of the Indian passengers”
Kathleen Tan, Regional Head of Commercial AirAsia, added “It has been an ongoing and sustained effort for AirAsia to provide the best service with unbelievable low fares to our guests. AirAsia is the first airline in the world to abolish fuel surcharges and administrative fees from all its international and domestic flights, to make travel more affordable and accessible for all. We believe in the no-frills, hassle-free, low fare business concept and feel that keeping costs low requires high efficiency in every part of the business. We are confident that with Akbar Travels Online, we will be able to achieve our objective. With this integration, we hope to reach the masses in India in a cost effective manner. At AirAsia, we continuously strive to promote affordable air travel and give the best to our guests”.
For all flights to India, AirAsia utilizes a brand new modern fleet of comfortable and spacious Airbus A320 aircraft. This is complemented by a variety of palatable hot meal options onboard, convenient and renowned customer service, friendly cabin crew and more. AirAsia encourages guests to pre-book their meals, and check in baggage online for greater savings!
About Akbar Travels Online
The travel website started by India’s leading travel house, Akbar Travels of India Pvt. Ltd. has been growing in strength over the last three years. Akbar Travels is the top travel agency in India with 55 IATA approved branches operating in India. The online travel portal has reached even the remote corners of the country with over 7,000 travel agents registered as travel partners.
About AirAsia and AirAsia X
AirAsia, the leading and largest low-cost carrier in Asia, services the most extensive network with 130 routes covering more than 70 destinations over 20 countries. Within a period of 8 years of operation, AirAsia has carried over 82 million passengers and grown its fleet from just two aircraft to 85. The airline today is proud to be a truly Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) airline with established operations based in Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, servicing a network stretching across all Asean countries, China, India and Bangladesh. This is further complemented by AirAsia X, its low cost long-haul affiliate carrier that currently flies to destinations in China, Australia the UK and the Middle East. AirAsia is the only regional carrier with the largest destination network and highest flight frequencies. AirAsia has been awarded the 2009 World’s Best Low Cost Airline in the annual World Airline Survey by Skytrax and Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) Airline of the Year Award for 2009.
AirAsia has also recently won the prestigious Brand of the Year 2009 award by Media’s Agency of the Year (AOY) Awards in Singapore. The honor was conferred to AirAsia in recognition of its constant innovations and bold ideas in branding campaigns and advertisements to achieve its marketing success.
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