Jaunted

Asia Air X About To Leave Nest

10/24/2007 at 9:30 AM
Tags: Air Asia X, LCCs, Low Cost Carriers, Asia Travel (all tags)

We were there when new low cost carrier Air Asia X was first born, but it's only just now about to make the maiden flight from the nest.

Air Asia X is a long-haul budget airline born of Air Asia and Fly Asian Xpress, and their first flight is due to take off on November 2, flying between Kuala Lumpur and the Gold Coast in Australia. Word is that routes from KL to Melbourne will start up in March 2008 and that London Stansted is also on the cards. China, Korea, India and the Middle East are also future destinations.

Air Asia X is still such a close spin-off of Air Asia that it doesn't even have its own website yet; the pages it does present, however, are full of not-very-funny uses of their name's final letter, like "X-citing low fares" and "X-emplary levels of safety". While we wait to see if this Malaysian-based LCC starts up a few more interesting routes, right now we're just keen to see if it's X-tremely cheap and X-tremely punctual.

Related Stories:
· Asia Air X is Born [Jaunted]
· Airports Gear Up For LCCs [news.com.au]
· Air Asia [Official Site]

[Photo: jubeiz]