AirAsia X Berhad, a subsidiary of AirAsia, has secured a 150\u2011aircraft order for the Airbus A220\u2011300,\u00a0a deal valued at approximately US\u202f$19 billion (around THB\u202f612 billion), making it the largest single order for the Airbus A220 aircraft in commercial aviation history.<\/p>\n
This deal also includes an option for AirAsia to increase its commitment to a total of 300 A220 jets to accommodate future growth, marking a major step in the airline\u2019s strategy to expand its cost\u2011efficient global network. The Airbus A220 is particularly well\u2011suited for AirAsia\u2019s long\u2011term plans due to its ability to operate on shorter routes with low fuel consumption and high efficiency.<\/p>\n
In making the announcement, AirAsia\u2019s Group CEO, Tony Fernandes, hailed the purchase as a game\u2011changer for the airline. He emphasized that this order would not only expand AirAsia\u2019s fleet but also transform the airline\u2019s network by creating the world\u2019s largest low\u2011cost carrier, connecting underserved markets and secondary cities worldwide.<\/p>\n
Fernandes noted that AirAsia X aims to leverage the A220\u2019s fuel efficiency and flexibility to expand its presence across more secondary cities throughout Asia and into Europe, the Middle East, and even Australia. The aircraft is specifically designed for routes where larger jets would be underutilized, such as shorter international routes and regional domestic connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AirAsia X Berhad, a subsidiary of AirAsia, has secured a 150\u2011aircraft order for the Airbus A220\u2011300,\u00a0a deal valued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[8269,90,7729,2174,8270,6557],"class_list":["post-9994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-airbus","tag-airasia-x","tag-airbus","tag-airbus-a220-300","tag-breaking-news","tag-new-aircrafts","tag-purchase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}