AirAsia X today launched five times weekly
direct flights between Abu Dhabi in the UAE and Kuala Lumpur in
Malaysia.
To celebrate, the low cost long-haul
airline is offering what it
calls “Free Seats” on the route to customers who book their
flights and hotels via
GoHoliday - AirAsia’s holiday division -
for selected hotels in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi.
The “Go Holiday
Free Flight” promotion is available for booking between 24 and 27
November 2009, for travel between 1 December 2009 and 31 January
2010. Terms and conditions apply.
H.E. Dato’ Yahaya Abdul Jabar,
Ambassador of Malaysia to the UAE said, “Today’s launch
signifies an important milestone in the field of aviation and
tourism to Malaysia as well as the UAE. The launch of 5 times
weekly flights to Abu Dhabi from Kuala Lumpur will be mutually
beneficial to both Malaysia and Abu Dhabi tourism, as we can
expect a considerable increase in both inbound and outbound travel
to both destinations, which bodes well for the economy for both
Malaysia and the Middle East. Malaysia looks forward to increase
business, commercial, and investment ties with the new connection
between the two countries. We see an increase in Malaysian
companies’ business interest investing in Abu Dhabi. We anticipate
their investments in areas of property development, tourism,
agro-based industries, biotechnology, food processing and oil and
gas.”
Abu Dhabi is AirAsia X’s first destination in
the Middle East. Flights depart Kuala Lumpur (days 1,4,5,6 and 7)
at 22:00 to arrive in Abu Dhabi at 01:30. The return leg from Abu
Dhabi departs (days 1,2,5,6 and 7) at 02:55 to arrive in Kuala
Lumpur at 13:55.
Mr. Ahmed Hussein, Deputy Director
General, Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority said,
“Today, AirAsia X is really bringing an X factor to Abu Dhabi – X
for Exceptional air links that AirAsia is now providing this
destination to better penetrate the Xtremely important Asian
market. There is much here to engage the Asian traveller – and
indeed the authority is so convinced of the market that it is now
running specialist training courses for our industry stakeholders
on how to specifically serve this segment of the market which has
its own individual needs.”
“With a flying time of only
around seven hours to Singapore and Malaysia – the market has much
to offer us. AirAsia’s network to the vast market Chinese market
will also increase Abu Dhabi’s access to the People’s Republic
which we regard of such great potential that the authority now has
three offices operating there,” Mr. Hussein added.
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