The Malaysian low cost carrier (LCC) Air Asia has decided to put Delhi and Mumbai back on its international network. 

The airline had last year pulled out flights to Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur from these cities, citing high airport charges at these places as the reason. 

While Delhi had a daily flight to Kuala Lumpur (on AirAsia X) and Bangkok (on Thai AirAsia) each, Mumbai had four flights a week to Kuala Lumpur on AirAsia X. "AirAsia X will be retstarting routes to India very soon. Bombay, Delhi around the corner," AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes tweeted. 

"AirAsia's biggest strength is its network of all group airlines. Connecting Mumbai and Delhi on the international network makes sense as the group's domestic airline will expand and offer connectivity within the country from these two places. Mumbai and especially Delhi remain very expensive airports and the reason for which AirAsia pulled out remains even now. The airline can offer seamless connectivity to far off places like Australia on its network," said a senior official of an Indian airline, taking Tony's tweet on Delhi and Mumbai as a sign of the aggression to expect in coming days.

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