KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — AirAsia plans to connect smaller Chinese cities to Southeast Asia as part of a recovery plan for its business in the world’s second biggest economy, where the appetite for traveling is constrained by a weakening buying power, South China Morning Post reported today.
AirAsia has said it aims to annualise growth in its Chinese business by 15 per cent over the next few years. The budget carrier currently offers 17 routes to the mainland with about 160 flights a week.
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The airline links major Chinese cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou with Southeast Asian destinations like Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu and Johor Baru.
“There are two parts of growth here,” Tan Sri Tony Fernandes, chief executive of Capital A Berhad, the budget carrier’s parent company, was quoted as saying.
“One is new cities, but the bigger one for me is to provide direct connectivity from the smaller cities. Your…
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