Thai AirAsia's low fares keep coming
Thai AirAsia has launched another low fare campaign with domestic flights starting at Bt299 and international routes going for Bt499 and the company expects to sell 300,000 tickets as a result.
The tickets are on offer on the airline's website www.airasia.com until July 14 and passengers can fly from July 17 until March 24, 2007.Domestic fares start at Bt299 for Bangkok to Udon Thani and Ubon Ratchathani. While prices for Hat Yai, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai, Narathiwat, Surat Thani, Krabi and Phuket start at Bt399. International prices are Bt499 for Bangkok to Phnom Penh, Penang and Singapore, while seats to Hanoi start at Bt799, Macao, Bt899 and Xiamen, Bt999. During its travel fair in Bangkok last week, the airline sold 20,000 tickets. The airline's chief executive, Tassapon Bijleveld, said fuel surcharges, insurance, administration fees and airport taxes would be tacked onto all discounted fares. Tassapon said the airline generated profits of around Bt10 million from January to March. He said the airline's revenue goal for 2006 was Bt4 billion and its expected passenger count was three million passengers. Last year, the airline logged sales of Bt2.4 billion from 1.8 million passengers. The airline, which flies to 16 destinations of which 10 are domestic, will add two more Boeing 737-300 aircraft to its fleet this year. Suchat Sritama, The Nation
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