AirAsia Inc., the country’s newest low-cost
carrier, will launch today its first international flight to Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, from Clark International Airport.
Flight
PQ 7455 is set to depart from Clark International Airport at 3:15 p.m. and arrive in Kuala Lumpur’s at 7 p.m.
The new
daily route complements Malaysia AirAsia’s existing Kuala Lumpur-Clark-Kuala
Lumpur morning flights, which have been in operation since 2005.
“The
additional frequency to Kuala Lumpur enables our guests especially Filipinos to
have access to Malaysia’s awesome tourist destinations but more important, we
want to draw tourists from Malaysia to our amazing beaches and natural wonders
in Puerto Princesa, Kalibo, Davao and here in Central Luzon,” AirAsia
Philippines chief executive Marianne Hontiveros said.
“If we
are able to draw even a fraction from Malaysia’s 24.5 million tourists, this
will impact on our tourist arrival record for 2012,” she said.
Data
show that tourist arrivals in Asean reached almost 74 million last year, with
Malaysia getting the biggest share, or one-third: Thailand, 15.9 million;
Singapore, 11.6 million; Indonesia, 7 million; Vietnam, 5 million; and
Philippines, 3.5 million.
About
47 percent of the tourists who arrived in the Asean region came from within
Asean. Visitors from European Union accounted for around 10 percent of the
arrivals, while those from China shared 7 percent.
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