{"id":781,"date":"2026-01-20T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/wptest\/2026\/01\/20\/air-asia-x-records-slight-increase-in-second-quarter-of-2017\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:20:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:20:06","slug":"air-asia-x-records-slight-increase-in-second-quarter-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/2026\/01\/20\/air-asia-x-records-slight-increase-in-second-quarter-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Asia X Records Slight Increase In Second Quarter Of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Asia X Bhd\u2019s operating performance in 2Q17 trended slightly above expectations despite Quarter 2 historically being the leanest quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Company continues to stimulate demand to fill up additional capacity injected in 2Q17, by achieving a marked improvement in Passenger Load Factor (PLF) of 80%, up 5 ppts YoY, in line with the 26% YoY growth in Available Seat per Kilometers (ASK) to 8,449 million in 2Q17.<\/p>\n<p>During the quarter under review, AirAsia X Malaysia added frequency to two routes: Kuala Lumpur \u2013 Shanghai and Osaka. \u00a0AirAsia X Malaysia also added Honolulu to its network during the quarter under review, the airline\u2019s maiden service to the United States of America. No new aircraft was added into AirAsia X Malaysia in 2Q17, hence, the fleet size stood at 22 A330s.<\/p>\n<p>On the associates, AirAsia X Thailand recorded strong PLF of 92%, an increase of 3 ppts from 89% a year ago. AirAsia X Thailand carried 387,959 passengers in 2Q17, 26% higher against the same period last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No new route or frequency increased in AirAsia X Thailand\u2019s network this quarter as Management was focused on getting their Air Operator\u2019s Certificate (AOC) reissued by the newly formed Civil Authority of Thailand (CAAT).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AirAsia X Thailand has been successfully recertified for its AOC by CAAT on 12 June 2017. No additional aircraft was added into AirAsia X Thailand during the quarter under review hence their fleet size at the end of June 2017 remained at 6 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>AirAsia X Indonesia re-launched its A330s service in May 2017 with daily flights from Denpasar to Mumbai via Kuala Lumpur, and followed by Denpasar to Narita. Denpasar \u2013 Mumbai commenced service on 19 May 2017 while Denpasar \u2013 Narita started operations on 24 May 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Operations into Narita began with 4 times weekly flights and increased to 7 times weekly by the end of June 2017. AirAsia X Indonesia fleet size remained with 2 A330s, bringing AirAsia X Group (\u201cthe Group\u201d) total fleet to 30. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/Articles_Image\/AsiaX-f.1.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"266\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Asia X Bhd\u2019s operating performance in 2Q17 trended slightly above expectations despite Quarter 2 historically being the leanest quarter.\u00a0 The Company continues to stimulate demand to fill up additional capacity injected in 2Q17, by achieving a marked improvement in Passenger Load Factor (PLF) of 80%, up 5 ppts YoY, in line with the 26% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corporate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6260,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/6260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malaysian-business.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}