AirAsia has started its five-times weekly direct flights between Abu Dhabi and Kuala Lumpur.

In conjunction with the inaugural flight celebration, AirAsia is offering free seats for the route to guests who book their flights and hotels via GoHoliday; AirAsia’s holiday division at goholiday.airasia.com for selected hotels in Malaysia and Abu Dhabi.

The Go Holiday Free Flight offer is available for booking period from 24 to 27 November, 2009 for travel from 1st December, 2009 to 31st January 2010.

Dato Yahaya Abdul Jabar, Malaysian Ambassador to the UAE said: "The launch signifies an important milestone in the field of aviation and tourism to Malaysia as well as the UAE. The launch of 5 times weekly flights to Abu Dhabi from Kuala Lumpur will be mutually beneficial to both Malaysia and Abu Dhabi tourism, as we can expect a considerable increase in both inbound and outbound travel to both destinations, which bodes well for the economy for both Malaysia and the Middle East."

"Malaysia looks forward to increase business, commercial, and investment ties with the new connection between the two countries. We see an increase in Malaysian companies business interest investing in Abu Dhabi. We anticipate their investments in areas of property development, tourism, agro-based industries, biotechnology, food processing and oil and gas.”

Abu Dhabi which is AirAsia X first destination in the Middle East will complement AirAsia X’s future growth in the market besides feeding more traffic to both countries.

With excellent air connectivity between Abu Dhabi and Kuala Lumpur, mutual economic benefits can be expected as AirAsia’s low fares and innovative services will definitely stimulate more travel both inbound and outbound from these two cities.

The UAE population could also take advantage of Kuala Lumpur as the connecting gateway to over 130 routes to 70 hot destinations in Asia and beyond.