Kiwi.com partners with Air-Asia
The Biggest Malaysian Airline now offers Kiwi.com flights as part of travel and lifestyle pivot
AirAsia has expanded its online offering to include non-AirAsia flights from Kiwi.com, leading travel-tech company, as part of its transformation into Asia Pacific’s leading provider of travel and lifestyle services. The partnership was announced by Tony Fernandes, AirAsia Group CEO and airasia.com CEO and Oliver Dlouhý, Kiwi.com CEO and co-founder at the press conference in Sepang today.
Announced in partnership with leading travel technology company Kiwi.com, destinations such as London, Dubai, Madrid and Auckland are now available to the more than 50 million unique monthly users who choose to book flights, hotels, activities and more on airasia.com.
AirAsia Group CEO and airasia.com CEO Tony Fernandes said, “When we started AirAsia as a low-cost airline back in 2001, I never thought we would ever be selling our competitors. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never say never. Today, with the help of Kiwi.com, we are reinventing ourselves, bringing to life our vision for airasia.com to be Asia Pacific’s leading travel and lifestyle platform.”
Powered by Kiwi.com, AirAsia’s website users will be able to book travel on more than 100 airlines to destinations currently not served by AirAsia, including Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and the Americas.
airasia.com Head of Airline Distribution Rajiv Kumar said, “In addition to the strategic partnership with Kiwi.com, which is focused on content and technology sharing, we are also exploring opportunities to partner directly with airlines and companies who complement our existing network and travel services beyond Asia Pacific.”
Kiwi.com CEO Oliver Dlouhý said, “I’m extremely proud that Kiwi.com has been selected to power AirAsia’s transformation and its ambition to make airasia.com a leading travel and lifestyle platform. We have an abundance of airlines and ground carriers at our disposal and together with AirAsia and its enormous customer base, we are proud to be able to open their platform to the rest of the world.”
To celebrate the announcement and its partnership with Davis Cup by Rakuten, which takes place on 18-24 November 2019 in Madrid, Spain, AirAsia has kickstarted a global marketing campaign featuring its very own Spanish Allstar, airasia.com Head of Product Pablo Sanz Salcedo.
The campaign was launched at AirAsia’s global headquarters RedQ in Kuala Lumpur today to much fanfare with a promotional all-in return fare to Madrid, Spain from Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Jakarta and Sydney starting from just RM99* (USD25). A secondary promotional all-in return fare of RM499* (USD125) will also be marketed for guests who miss out on the initial fare offer.
Book the promotional all-in fares to Madrid, Spain on airasia.com on 16 November, 2019 from 09:00am (GMT+8) only for immediate travel until 31 March, 2020.
The campaign comes off the back of the company’s reorganisation, which separates AirAsia’s airline operations from its travel and lifestyle arm, airasia.com. Since the reorganisation was announced in August this year, more than 700 Allstar staff have been recruited, and in addition to being based across Asia Pacific, a new airasia.com campus will open in central Kuala Lumpur early next year.