Pushing profitability without passengers
In line with last year's transformation into a combination carrier with equal emphasis on both cargo and passengers, Air Asia X (AAX), the medium haul, low-cost affiliate of Malaysia's Capital A (formerly Air Asia Group), has secured full belly space utilisation for one third of its wide body A330-300 fleet for an initial period of one year.
Few days after announcing a strategic partnership with Geodis, Capital A's logistics venture Teleport will use the additional capacity to fulfil its customer requirements, both intra and across the whole of Asia Pacific.
Teleport COO Adrian Loretz: "In addition to our dedicated 737-800 freighter, the added A330 allows us to provide more capacity access for our customers to serve the demand in the region while operating from our main hubs in Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok." (ah)