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AirAsia to fly JB-Bangkok route from Feb 25, 2008
Report from Business Times (Malaysia) dated Friday 25 January 2008 :-
AirAsia to fly JB-Bangkok route from Feb 25, 2008
BANGKOK : AirAsia is expected to ply the Bangkok-Johor Baru route beginning February 25, 2008 with four flights a week.
The once-daily flight will be on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
An airline official said Bangkok will be the first destination in Thailand from Johor Baru, targeting Johoreans, Singaporeans and also those flying into the city from Sabah and Sarawak.
Besides Bangkok, AirAsia will also fly to Medan and Surabaya from Johor Baru soon, he said.
AirAsia and its Thai subsidiary, Thai AirAsia, now operate seven flights daily from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok, as well as serving Krabi, Phuket and Chiang Mai, on top of the Penang-Bangkok route.
The Bangkok-Langkawi and Bangkok-Kota Kinabalu services were discontinued last year due to low passenger load.
It's learnt that Thai AirAsia was not keen to operate the Johor Baru-Bangkok route as it wanted to concentrate on strengthening its existing destinations while looking into the possibility of entering the Bangkok-Jakarta route and expanding its China base
--- KatoeyNewsNetwork
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