AirAsia X orders 25 additional A330-300

December 19, 2013 Comments Off on AirAsia X orders 25 additional A330-300 287 Views

AirAsia X, the long haul, low fare airline affiliate of the AirAsia Group has placed an order for 25 more A330-300s with European airframer Airbus.

(L-R) John Leahy, Chief Operating Officer, Customers, Airbus, Fabrice Brégier, Chief Executive Officer, Airbus, Kiran Rao, EVP Sales, Strategy and Marketing, Airbus, Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, Co-Founder and Director of AirAsia X, Jerome Causse, Sales Manager, Airbus and Azran Osman- Rani, Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia X. AirAsia X image.
(L-R) John Leahy, Chief Operating Officer, Customers, Airbus, Fabrice Brégier, Chief Executive Officer, Airbus, Kiran Rao, EVP Sales, Strategy and Marketing, Airbus, Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, Co-Founder and Director of AirAsia X, Jerome Causse, Sales Manager, Airbus and Azran Osman- Rani, Chief Executive Officer of AirAsia X. AirAsia X image.

The order is valued at US$ 6 billion at list prices. This order increases AirAsia X’s total orders to 57 A330-300s, which are scheduled to be completed by 2019. Fifty-one direct on Airbus and six to be leased from the International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC).

AirAsia X will start taking delivery of its newly-ordered A330-300s in 2015. It is expected to be deployed on the carrier’s Asia-Pacific network. However, the new order includes the latest extended range versions of the A330-300, providing the carrier with the ability to offer non-stop service to destinations in Europe or one-stop service to the US.

AirAsia X currently operates 15 A330-300s on services linking its Kuala Lumpur base to 18 destinations in Asia, Australia and Saudi Arabia. In addition to A330s, the carrier also has 10 A350-XWB aircraft on order for future delivery. The AirAsia Group is one of Airbus’s largest airline customers in the world. In total, it has ordered 536 Airbus aircraft including 475 A320 Family single aisle aircraft for AirAsia’s short haul operations based out of Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Jakarta and Manila, plus the 51 A330s and 10 A350 XWBs for AirAsia X.

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