Air Asia to fly to Frankfurt

[Mattg]

German media are reporting that Air Asia X is planning to open a new route from Bangkok to Frankfurt. According to "Die Welt", Air Asia plans to open the route within the next 12 months, provided that approvals are granted. The flight would cost a little over 200 Euros (around $300). Apparently they are also considering re-starting flights to London.

AirAsia plant Flüge Frankfurt-Bangkok zu Kampfpreisen - Nachrichten - DIE WELT

 

[moa999]

Well after cutting the Indonesia operation in September they have a few spare 330s

 

[AnnaB]

I would probably still fly SQ or similar to Europe anyway. If you buy on sale you can get a great Y ticket for $1500 with all inclusions return.
AirAsiaX would roughly end up at about $200 PER-KL, $100 KL-BKK and $300 to Frankfurt, so total of $600 one way without luggage, entertainment, food or drinks.

Rather do SQ any day.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Yeah - flying to FRA - until they cancel it.

Didn't Air Asia fly to London at one stage? That got canned. Other routes from associated companies also cancelled (like DPS-Australia).

 

[whole-lotta-moxie]

Didn't they also fly to Paris at one point?

 

[UP4014]

Air Asia go with the flow and getting their feet wet on different routes to see what works. Other airlines have that over decades so no surprise Air Asia has speeded up the process for themselves. Having said that I wouldn't fly them.

Matt

 

[Cool Cat Phil]

Didn't they also fly to Paris at one point?

Yes they did and that was very short lived.

Will be interesting to see if they can make FRA work. I suspect if the route is to BKK as speculated that route could indeed do well considering the number of Germans that now influx SE Asia .

 

[Mattg]

Will be interesting to see if they can make FRA work. I suspect if the route is to BKK as speculated that route could indeed do well considering the number of Germans that now influx SE Asia .

Absolutely. I think they're expecting a lot of inbound traffic from Germany on the route.

I think Eurowings has proven that there is demand - as far as I'm aware, their CGN-BKK and CGN-HKT flights are doing well. My CGN-BKK flight in February was certainly full.