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Article: AirAsia to resume expansion plans
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- June 5, 2001
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Hew Sue-Len
New Straits Times
06-05-2001
AirAsia to resume expansion plans
Byline: Hew Sue-Len
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: Business
Column: Aviation
AIRASIA Sdn Bhd, the airline subsidiary of the DRB-Hicom group, will be resuming its expansion plans before the end of the year.
Starting August, there will be two new flights per week to Bangkok and three per week to Phuket. From October the airline will be flying 14 times a week to Kuching, an increase of three flights.
"Further expansion plans will be announced in a few months. Those plans were held back due to the demise of the former DRB-Hicom chief executive Tan Sri Yahya Ahmad and because of the economic crisis, but there are plans ...