Low-fare Malaysian carrier, AirAsia Berhad, has announced it will begin flying to and from Perth Airport in Australia. The airline’s services between Perth and Kuala Lumpur are due to commence in March 2023.
“Malaysia is Western Australia’s fifth biggest international visitor market, injecting $88 million into the WA economy in visitor expenditure for the year ending in June,” said Perth Airport Acting CEO, Kate Holsgrove.
“Malaysia is also a popular holiday destination and, combined with a large number of passengers also visiting friends and relatives, will continue to be an important market for outbound visitation.
“We’ve got strong business, education, trade and tourism links with Malaysia and this new non-stop services provides further opportunities.”
AirAsia Berhad will operate the service using a narrow-body A320 aircraft which has 180 seats. Its services will complement services from AirAsia X, which operates wide-body A330 aircraft between Perth and Kuala Lumpur and Indonesia AirAsia that operates services between Perth and the indonesian cities of Denpasar (Bali) and Jakarta.
