NEW DELHI, April 28 — Air India plans to acquire budget carrier AirAsia India as their owner Tata Group wants to consolidate its airline business, Indian media reported on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 28 — AirAsia has settled over 90 per cent of passenger refunds thus far, despite financial difficulty faced by the airline industry which was hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, and is not expected to face a big hurdle to settle more in a few months time, Capital A Bhd (formerly known as AirAsia Group Bhd) chief executive officer (CEO) Tan Sri Tony Fernandes said.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 — AirAsia Group is reminding guests to adhere to the standard operating procedures (SOPs) for international travellers entering Malaysia, following the latest announcement of #ReopeningSafely by the Malaysian government.

SEPANG, March 22 — AirAsia is expecting an increase of more than 70 international flight volume per week for the first week of border reopening starting on April 1, 2022.

BANGKOK, March 15 — AirAsia Thailand will resume international flights to seven countries on 18 routes starting next month.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 — AirAsia Malaysia said the announcement on Malaysia's border reopening will provide a welcome boost to support additional capacity in many of its core international markets in line with the strong pent-up demand.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 5 — AirAsia Malaysia will be reintroducing fuel surcharges beginning March 8, 2022, to all its domestic and international flights to offset escalating jet fuel prices that had exceeded US$120 (RM501.36) per barrel.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 — AirAsia believes strong demand from travellers will help the budget airline cope with the adverse impact of the Russia - Ukraine conflict.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 13 — The Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) will continue to monitor airline management operations to ensure all risks are mitigated correctly and accordingly.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 19 — The Malaysian Aviation Commission (Mavcom) has approved 27 Air Traffic Rights (ATR) out of the 28 applications submitted in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2021, which is a 33.3 per cent jump in applications and a 28.6 per cent increase in approvals compared with the third quarter of 2021.

GEORGE TOWN, Jan 16 — AirAsia Group aims to become Asia’s largest food delivery and ride-hailing company, besides just offering flights in the region, following the successful acquisition of local online food delivery platform, Delivereat, recently.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 22 — Low-cost airline AirAsia Group Bhd will be suspending new Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) flight bookings between December 23 and January 20, 2022 from Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok Don Mueang Airport to Singapore.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 20 — To kickstart the resumption of the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) between Malaysia and Singapore, AirAsia will operate a seven times weekly flight schedule from Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (klia2) and Changi Airport beginning November 29, 2021.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 — AirAsia has been awarded Asia’s Leading Low-Cost Airline for the fifth consecutive year and Asia’s Leading Low-Cost Airline Cabin Crew for the sixth year running at the 28th World Travel Awards 2021.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 11 — AirAsia Group Bhd and AirAsia X Bhd emerged as active counters with 107.93 million and 88.73 million of their shares were traded, respectively, in early trade on Monday, thanks to the resumption of interstate and international travels.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 — AirAsia’s inaugural service from Kuala Lumpur to Langkawi this morning under the travel bubble recorded a 100 per cent flight load, signifying a strong rebound for domestic air travel.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 —  AirAsia has seen strong uptake of seats to Langkawi following the government’s announcement of the island’s travel bubble standard operating procedure last week.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 12 — AirAsia Group Bhd’s wholly-owned engineering services unit, Asia Digital Engineering Sdn Bhd (ADE), has obtained approval from the Civil Aviation Authority of Malaysia (CAAM) to provide base maintenance services.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 — AirAsia Group Bhd plans to re-hire the employees it had to retrench last year once the airline business starts to pick up.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 5 — AirAsia is holding its first Super Sale for the year, offering up to 70 per cent discount on products ranging from fresh produce, groceries, food deliveries, lifestyle products, Muslim-friendly services and health and wellness packages via its super app or airasia.com from April 5-11, 2021.