AirAsia is back stronger than ever! Record daily sales - 500,000 seats sold in 48 hours!!

SEPANG, 21 September 2022 - AirAsia's biggest ever 5 million FREE* Seats sale, which launched on Monday with the aim of further stimulating the travel and tourism industry recovery in the region, has proved to be a huge hit with an incredible half a million seats sold across both short haul and long haul flights within a mere 48 hours!

This marks a record-breaking sale for AirAsia with the highest number of seats sold daily since the onset of COVID-19. Close to half a million seats were snapped up in just the first two days of sale alone - an incredible milestone for the airline and the travel industry as a whole after almost 3 years of lockdowns and travel restrictions.

Value seekers have been snapping up FREE* seats by the minute to their favourite short haul destinations, with the likes of Langkawi, Penang and Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia as well as Phuket, Krabi, and Chiang Mai in Thailand, Bali in Indonesia and Cebu in the Philippines being amongst the most popular choices.

Longer haul flights on AirAsia X and Thai AirAsia X which are also on sale now for a steal starting from only RM499 (inclusive of taxes and charges) have also been very popular to destinations from Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok to South Korea, (Seoul), Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Auckland), India (New Delhi) and new destinations to the Middle East (Jeddah) and Japan (Tokyo and Sapporo).

Bargain hunters are urged to get in quick to avoid disappointment as this super sale ends 25 September 2022.

Tony Fernandes, Chief Executive Officer of Capital A said, "21 years ago, AirAsia created the Big Sales. While everyone is focused on digital advertising, we went back to traditional media and bucked the trend of conventional advertising using digital media. I am thrilled that our support of traditional media that has always been there in AirAsia resulted in record breaking daily sales. It was emotional for me to see today's achievement, having gone through almost three years of hellish times to see us surpass our pre-COVID record daily sales record of 230,000 in January 2020. I want to thank my unsung heroes in the commercial, branding and communications department for their constant and unwavering support and the can-do attitude to bring us back to our previous heights."