New Delhi, January 15: Low-cost airline AirAsia India on Monday rolled out its sale for promotional base fare starting from Rs 99 and will be applicable between seven cities in India. "The promotional fares start from Rs 99 under the dynamic pricing to cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, New Delhi, Pune and Ranchi," the airline said in a statement. Meanwhile, AirAsia will also fly its passengers at Rs 1,499 base fare from Indian cities to 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) that includes Auckland, Bali, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Singapore and Sydney.
In simple words, the airline is all set to fly its passengers at a base fare starting as low as Rs 99. The airline said in its statement that the promotional fares start from Rs 99 under the dynamic pricing to cities like Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, New Delhi, Pune and Ranchi. "Passengers can book from Monday up to January 21 and avail the offer to travel from January 15 to July 31," it added.
AirAsia India is a joint venture between Malaysian low-cost airline AirAsia Berhad and Tata Sons with the former holding 49 percent stake and Tata Sons holding 51 percent. It must be noted that the discount applies to bookings made through airasia.com and AirAsia mobile app. The offer can be availed on all flights of the AirAsia network including AirAsia India, AirAsia Berhad, Thai AirAsia, AirAsia X and Indonesia AirAsia X.
Air Asia began its operations in India in 2014 and flies between 16 major cities in India which includes Visakhapatnam, Chandigarh, Delhi, Goa, Srinagar, Ranchi, Bengaluru, Kochi, Pune, Imphal, Bhubaneswar, Jaipur, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata at present. Earlier this month, AirAsia increased its Maldives operations with the commencement of additional services to be operated by its long-haul affiliate AirAsia X, in addition to the daily flights currently operated by AirAsia Malaysia. With the new move, AirAsia X will operate four times weekly Kuala Lumpur-Malé service under the D7 airline code utilising Airbus A330-300 aircraft, equivalent to an incremental 156,000 seats per year, from 6 February 2018.
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