AirAsia to start flights to Ipoh

Low-cost carrier AirAsia Group Bhd is adding services to Ipoh and also looking at restarting flights to Kuantan, according to its group chief executive Tan Sri Tony Fernandes.

He said this in a tweet this morning from his handle @tonyfernandes: “We opening IPOH soon and also looking to restart Kuantan. Would mean we would fly to all local destinations.”

AirAsia had initially introduced flights to Kuantan in June 2008, but dropped it later.

At 11.49am, AirAsia fell 1.25% or 4 sen to RM3.15 with 1.9 million shares done.