AirAsia has no plan for direct Vietnam-Singapore route

Malaysian budget airliner AirAsia currently has no plan to launch a direct route from Vietnam to Singapore, its CEO said Tuesday.

“We don’t have a license to fly directly to Singapore from Vietnam. Right now we can’t do that,” AirAsia’s CEO Tony Fernandes told a press briefing in Singapore.

But the largest budget airline in Southeast Asia would definitely gain market share in Vietnam if they did, Fernandes said.

AirAsia’s Vietnam customers currently must layover in Kuala Lumpur to get to Singapore.

Other budget airlines will eventually meet this demand as they enter the Vietnam market, said Fernandes.

In the briefing Tuesday, AirAsia officially inaugurated four new routes from Singapore, going to Jakarta, Bandung, Bali and Yogyakarta, all in Indonesia.

The move made AirAsia the only carrier connecting Singapore and Bandung.

Launched in December 2001 with just two aircraft, AirAsia has since grown to become the region’s leading discount airline with a network covering more than 122 routes backed by a fleet of over 70 planes.

Trong Kha

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