{"id":22002,"date":"2022-06-29T17:57:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T12:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=22002"},"modified":"2022-06-29T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T12:34:03","slug":"airasia-will-fly-its-only-airbus-a330-800-miles-to-bangkok-and-manila-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/29\/airasia-will-fly-its-only-airbus-a330-800-miles-to-bangkok-and-manila-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia will fly its only Airbus A330 800 miles to Bangkok and Manila in July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For obvious reasons, it is highly unusual for a short-haul ULCC to handle widebody aircraft. But that is what the Malaysian branch of AirAsia is doing. It has been doing it for some period now, primarily domestically.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has now revealed it’ll operate the widebody between Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok Don Mueang, joining the previously announced route between Kuala Lumpur and Manila. Dhaka returns in July too.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AirAsia <\/a>has one A330-300, registered 9M-VVA. The 7.5-year-old aircraft has 377 seats, with 365 in the economy (mainly in a 3-3-3 layout) and 12 in premium (not completely flat). As you’d expect, it was previously operated by AirAsia X (registered 9M-XXW). After serving with X until the summer of 2020, it entered AirAsia’s employment in December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It began regularly flying in January this year. While Kuala Lumpur-Kuching<\/a> was its first scheduled route, other places, including Bangalore, Chennai, and Dhaka, have seen it, but always very temporarily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, however, it has primarily employed the aircraft domestically between Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu, some 1,013 miles (1,630km). That is way too far to be considered in the world’s shortest widebody routes category. Flightradar24 shows that on June 27th, for example, the A330 completed six sectors (three roundtrips) on the route, taking off from Malaysia’s capital at 05:17 and coming back at 02:18 the next morning. But it changes in July.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the latest scheduling file, AirAsia has revealed it’ll use the A330 between Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok<\/a> Don Mueang. While it’ll run 1x daily, it won’t hang around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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