AirAsia X, the long haul, low fare affiliate of AirAsia sets a new sales record with its newly launched destination to Seoul recently with all in fares from as low as Korean Won 60,000 from Seoul and Malaysian Ringgit 99 from Kuala Lumpur for bookings from 4 to 8th August, 2010.

The airline portal created waves with over 80,000 seats snapped up, generating over RM 20 million in sales during this period surpassing popular introductory sales of London, Melbourne, and Taipei.

The sale has broken all records from AirAsia X previous new route launches.

The new Kuala Lumpur-Seoul route which will commence services on 1st November, 2010 onwards, is AirAsia X’s eleventh destination after Australia, India, Taiwan, China and Europe.

AirAsia X Chief Executive Officer, Azran Osman-Rani lauded the achievement: “This is amazing news.

We are heartened by this record-breaking result, and are thrilled to deliver a new surge in tourist arrivals into Malaysia with the confidence given to us by the Malaysian government who approved our application to fly to Seoul-Incheon International airport."

"It’s remarkable that we are setting new records in less than a week after we announced our new destination to Seoul on 2nd August, 2010. Following the footsteps of AirAsia, AirAsia X is blazing new trails, and revolutionizing the way travel plans are made."

"With over 132 routes to 70 hot destinations, guests may hop on our long haul network to Kuala Lumpur and continue their holidays for a beach getaway or an adventurous trail across ASEAN and beyond.”

“We are confident that the new Seoul route will also deliver strong new passenger traffic similar to the significant growth rates we recorded on the Melbourne, Perth and London routes which grew by 41%, 66% and 31% respectively in 2009 as well as the strong growth in inbound tourist arrivals into  Malaysia from Australia, China and UK, the second, third and fourth largest growth in tourist arrivals in 2009 after Singapore."

AirAsia X expects over 100,000 passengers’ arrivals on its daily Seoul service in the first 12 months of operations. In 2009, Korean tourist arrivals into Malaysia were 227,312, a 15% decline compared to 2008.”