Saturday, June 03, 2006

AirAsia offer sets off frenzy in Brunei

By Azlan Othman

It was simply buy, buy to fly on AirAsia's new low fare flights for the large number of travellers to Kuala Lumpur from Brunei, vice versa.

When AsiaAsia opened its website yesterday for the first time to let Brunei travellers book their low fare tickets to KL, the response has been nothing short of overwhelming.

According to the airline sources the demand has been more than encouraging for flights from Brunei and to Brunei from KL scheduled to commence on July 11, 2006.

The no frill's airline promotional fare is BND$39.99/RM89.99 one-way for the travel period of July 11, 2006 to March 24, 2007. The fare excludes airport fees, admin and fuel surcharges. Different levels of fares are available.

The airline staff in Kuala Lumpur said many inquiries have been made even in writing. However, response from online booking was not immediately available and would only be ready by next week, she said.

Meanwhile the largest low fare airline, AirAsia on Thursday announced its expansion plans to develop Kota Kinabalu and Kuching airports into fully operational hubs by July 2006.

Low fare travel for East Malaysians will be further enhanced with more exciting and affordable intra state travel opportunities between Sabah and Sarawak as well as to the Asean region.

AirAsia will commence daily direct flights from Kota Kinabalu to Miri and Tawau starting from July 11 and Bintulu, Sibu, Miri, Kota Kinabalu from Kuching, beginning July 25, 2006. Bookings these new flights began at all AirAsia distribution since yesterday. These flights will operate on Boeing 737-300 aircraft.

AirAsia would steadily strengthen its route network connecting the Peninsular with East Malaysia by boosting flights frequencies from Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru. Flights from Johor to Kuching and Kota Kinabalu will be increased to twice daily (14 flights weekly), and Miri and Sibu would commence 7 times weekly operations from July 3 onwards.

AirAsia, who has revolutionised travel to Sandakan, and Tawau by introducing direct flights to connect these cities with Kuala Lumpur, will enhance its schedule with 14 flights weekly.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin Weekend

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