In October 2019, Bengaluru based low cost carrier AirAsia India had announced, after a slow rate in its operations, that they plan to expand their fleet more than fourfold to 100 aircraft in the next five years. As a part of its “robust” network expansion plans for 2020-21, AirAsia India will be launching its flight services to more cities. New routes between New Delhi – Kochi and New Delhi – Ahmedabad were commenced from operations.
Ankur Garg, Chief Commercial Officer, AirAsia India said, “We continue to strengthen our network across India. I am confident that, with the robust expansion plans we have chalked out for 2020-2021, we will be able to offer our services on many more new routes.” At present, it flies to 21 destinations pan-India with a fleet of 27 A320 aircraft.
AirAsia India will operate a daily service to the two cities from Delhi. The airline also said it continues to deliver on its goal of providing non-stop connectivity between various cities in its domestic network.
The Tata Sons-AirAsia group joint venture airline currently flies only on domestic routes but awaiting a go-ahead from the government to fly international. Tata Sons owns 51 per cent the budget carrier, while Malaysian carrier AirAsia Berhad holds the rest 49 per cent stake.
AirAsia India flew 7.60 lakh passengers in November with a 5.9 per cent market share.
