more-inAirAsia India’s passenger traffic nearly doubled to 11.7 lakh passengers in three months to September over the year-ago period on the back of capacity addition and network expansion. The Bengaluru-based joint venture airline between Tata Sons and Malaysia’s AirAsia group had flown 5.89 lakh passengers in the July-September quarter of 2016. AirAsia India (AAI) has carried close to 11.7 lakh passengers in the third quarter of the current calender year, registering a 99 per cent growth over the same quarter of 2016. AAI commenced operations from six new routes, four originating from Kolkata and one each from Bhubaneswar and Hyderabad, besides increasing frequencies on three routes originating from Bengaluru, it said. The airline, which launched services in June 2013 has plans to fly overseas from next year.

Source: The Hindu November 03, 2017 14:03 UTC