Taipei, March 19 (CNA) Budget airline AirAsia Group announced Tuesday it will launch three routes connecting Taipei and Kaohsiung to Japan later this year, as part of a strategic expansion into the Northeast Asian market.
AirAsia said in a press release that its sister company AirAsia X will operate daily flights from Taipei to Tokyo (Narita) starting May 31 using the Airbus A330 family wide-body aircraft.
Meanwhile, AirAsia X subsidiary Thai AirAsia will launch daily flights between Taipei and Okinawa from June 15, as well as four weekly flights from Kaohsiung to Tokyo (Narita) starting June 16, both using A320 aircraft.
All flights will operate as an extension of existing flight services, through what is known as the fifth-freedom right, according to AirAsia.
The right refers to the right of an airline to carry passengers from one’s own country to a second country, and from that country to a third country.
The Taipei-Tokyo route is an extension of AirAsia X’s Kuala Lumpur-Taipei…
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