Friday 22 November 2019

AirAsia officially welcomes its first A321neo in KLIA2 on 22 November 2019

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                  / KUCINTA SETIA

Image courtesy : AirAsia Group

AirAsia officially receives the Group's first Airbus A321neo aircraft at KLIA2 on 22 November 2019. The arrival of its first A321neo from Hamburg heralds the future of its Group's single-aisle passenger fleet, A321neo with greater flight operational efficiency and passenger capacity than its current 180-seat A320 and 186-seat A320neo.

The A321neo of AirAsia Group has 236 seats in Economy Class layout and it has a 27 per cent increase in capacity. It will enable AirAsia to meet the increasing demands of the Group's route network, thereby significantly improving operational efficiency by saving more than 10 per cent of fuel and flying to more new destinations from KLIA2, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, India and Japan.

The first A321neo aircraft of AirAsia, marked 9M-VAA (registered MSN 9139), will be deployed on routes from KLIA2 to Don Mueang, Kuching, Kota Kinabalu, Shenzhen and Singapore. It will be joined by another A321neo registered MSN 9248 in January 2020. 

AirAsia has a purchase-order of 353 A321neo jets.

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