LANGKAWI, Mar 22 – Langkawi is set to grow its tourist arrival numbers as AirAsia announced Shenzhen as its next international route to be operated from Langkawi Island. This marks AirAsia’s third international connectivity into Langkawi after Singapore and Guangzhou.
This new flight is scheduled to commence operation on 16 July 2017 with three weekly flights (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday). Booking for this new route will be made available soon on AirAsia’ website, as well as AirAsia’s mobile app on the iPhone and Android devices.
Malaysia’s Minister of Transport, Dato’ Sri Liow Tiong Lai was present to witness the announcement of this new direct fligt, which was made by the Chief Executive officer of AirAsia, Aireen Omar at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 2017.
“We announced Langkawi as our international hub two years ago during the last LIMA, and we are proud to announce another international direct connectivity that will further grow Langkawi’s position as a premier holiday destination in the region,” Aireen Omar said.
“AirAsia has always been committed towards expanding the markets that we operate in, and Langkawi is no exception. In additional, the number of the passengers flown year on year into Langkawi has also increased by 30% from 2015 to year 2016,” she said.
“There is no much potential for Langkawi, and wr know that with the resourced that we putting in such as marketing initiatives, we can expend the market demand for Langkawi from Shenzhen. AirAsia looks forward to working with all parties, especially from the tourism industry on b0th ends to wensure that we optimise on this new router,” she added.
Liow said he applaud AirAsia’s efforts to futher develop Langkawi by expanding theor network for this island. Langkawi was AirAsia’s first route to be operated in 2001 and it currently serve 5 routes from the island of Langkawi with 106 weekly flights to two international destinations (Singapore and Guangzhou), and 3 domestic flights (Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Johor Bahru).
