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Bangkok Airways increases Bangkok – Phnom Penh flights to six daily

By Budget Airline News

Bangkok Airways will add an extra daily flight between Bangkok and Phnom Penh, Cambodia. With the additional flight the airline will be operating six daily flights on this route. These additional services will start on 15 January 2016.

Bangkok Airways flight PG927 departs Bangkok (BKK – Suvarnabhumi Airport) at 6:20 am and arrives Phnom Penh at 7:30 am and flight PG928 departs Phnom Penh at 8:20 am and arrives in Bangkok (BKK – Suvarnabhumi Airport) at 9:30 am. The additional flights will be operated by Airbus A319, consisting of 12 Business class seats and 108 Economy class seats.

Other airlines operating on this route include Thai Airways (from Suvarnabhumi Airport) and AirAsia (from Don Muang Airport).

Cebu Pacific launches Manila – Doha flights

By Budget Airline News

Cebu Pacific launched twice weekly non-stop flights between Manila and Doha Hamad Airport, Qatar. The non-stop service departs Manila every Monday and Thursday at 21:35 to arrive in Doha at 02:45 the next day. The return flight departs Doha every Tuesday and Friday at 04:15 to arrive in Manila at 18:35.

The new route utilizes Cebu Pacific’s brand-new Airbus A330-300 aircraft, with a configuration of 436 all-economy class seats. [Read more…]

Nok Air to start flights from Bangkok to Ho Chi Minh City

By Budget Airline News

Nok Air is restarting international services with a flight from Bangkok (Don Muang Airport) to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) in Vietnam. Nok Air previously operated flights to Hanoi. The special introductory fares start from 999 Baht and include 30 kg checked-in luggage. The flights to Ho Chi Minh City will start on October 1st, 2015. [Read more…]

AirAsia to start Kuala Lumpur – Pattaya (U-Tapao Airport) flights

By Budget Airline News

AirAsia will start flying from Kuala Lumpur (KLIA2) to Pattaya (U-Tapao Airport) on July 16. The airline will operate four weekly flights on this route.

AirAsia will be the only airline that connects Pattaya to Kuala Lumpur directly. This will be AirAsia’s seventh destination in Thailand from Kuala Lumpur, after Phuket, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Hat Yai, Krabi and Surat Thani. Last year, the airline carried over two million passengers between Malaysia and Thailand. [Read more…]

AirAsia enhances services for UnionPay cardholders

By Budget Airline News

AirAsia will enhance its services for UnionPay cardholders around the world through the entire AirAsia ecosystem, which includes flights, hotels and other related transactions.

Guests from China will now be able to book flights on airasia.com in RMB using their UnionPay cards. Tune Money, AirAsia’s pre-paid card partner will also issue a multi-currency prepaid card in collaboration with UnionPay, which will be available in CNY, THB and HKD. [Read more…]

Indonesia AirAsia X to Launch Melbourne – Bali Flights

By Budget Airline News

Indonesia AirAsia X will start flights between Melbourne and Bali on March 18th, 2015 with two flights per week, increasing to five flights per week from May 1st, 2015.The airline has been granted approval to fly direct between Melbourne and Bali (Denpasar) by Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).

From May 1st, 2015, the direct flights will depart Melbourne Airport to Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday with a total flight time of 6 hours and 10 minutes.

The Melbourne – Bali flights will be operated with an Airbus A330-300 aircraft with a seating capacity of 377 seats. The configuration will be as per AirAsia X’s configuration of 365 economy seats and 12 business class flat bed seats. [Read more…]

Taiwanese budget airline V Air to launch flights to Bangkok and Chiang Mai

By Budget Airline News

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Taiwanese budget airline V Air will launch operations on December 17 with an inaugural flight to Bangkok. The airline, which was established last November, will also launch flights between Taipei and Chiang Mai in northern Thailand from January 7, 2015.

Introductory prices for a one-way flight will start at NT$1,988 (US$64).

The carrier is likely to face competition from Tigerair Taiwan, a budget airline joint venture between Taiwan’s China Airlines and Singapore’s Tiger Airways, which started operations on September 26 with an inaugural flight to Singapore.