Air Asia’s flight services between Kota Kinabalu and Macao will resume in July, according to local media reports.
The low-cost airline says it will schedule four flights per week from Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Malaysia’s Sabah state. It presently operates services from Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Bangkok to Macao.
The airline is “looking to further expand” its network from Sabah “to new destinations in the near future”, said AirAsia Malaysia CEO Riad Asmat.
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Air Asia says it is also planning to launch flights to Beijing in early July with seven weekly departures from Kota Kinabalu to Beijing’s Daxing airport.
Meanwhile, passenger volume at Macao’s airport exceeded 750,000 in the first quarter of this year, as air services continued to increase in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Officials said that visitors in the quarter arrived on a total of 6,900 flights and credited the surge mostly to traffic between Macao and mainland China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
