AirAsia is known to just about every traveller who has ever headed to Southeast Asia. The low-cost airline is Malaysia's largest airline and the largest low-cost carrier in all of Asia in terms of passengers and fleet.
The company operates its flights with Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft. On long-haul routes, it deploys Airbus A330 and the soon-to-be-delivered latest A350 aircraft. All aircraft are red in colour.
AirAsia also simultaneously operates several subsidiaries with operations in other Asian markets:
- AirAsia India (I5/IAD),
- AirAsia Japan (DJ/WAJ),
- AirAsia X (D7/XAX),
- Indonesia AirAsia (QZ/AWQ),
- Indonesia AirAsia X (XT/IDX),
- Philippines AirAsia (Z2/EZD),
- Thai AirAsia (FD/AIQ),
- Thai AirAsia X (XJ/TAX).
The IATA/ICAO code of the company is given in brackets and the suffix "X" indicates a long-haul airline. All companies are externally referred to as AirAsia.
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