AirAsia gives away 51,000 free seats in a promotion program between Singapore and KL

AirAsia plans to add four additional daily direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, bringing up its daily tally to around six daily direct flights connecting the two major cities.

As a promotion, AirAsia will give away 51,000 free seats, and will also waive the fuel surcharges. Passengers would need to only bear the airport tax and administration costs for the additional new frequencies.

Air Asia's additional services will commence on 1 December 2008, with the promotion being valid for the booking period 26 September – 3 October 2008, for travel between 1 December and 31 July 2009.

Dato' Sri Tony Fernandes, Group CEO of AirAsia Berhad said, "These additional flights, further demonstrate our commitment to making air-travel convenient and affordable for everyone. In addition to that, we strongly believe that this will pave the way for more tourism, investments and that both countries will enjoy mutual benefits of feeding the traffic between the hubs. Indeed, we are very delighted to have acquired these additional services thus welcome healthy competition."

AirAsia also has four daily flights from Bangkok, one daily flight from Phuket and three weekly flights from Pekanbaru, Indonesia to Singapore.