Low-cost airline Air Asia on Tuesday said it would start six additional flights from Kuala Lumpur to five cities of India, including Bangalore.
The daily Bangalore-Kuala Lumpur flight, to commence from May 20, would leave at 1715 hrs and arrive at Kuala Lumpur at 2340 hrs. The return flight would leave from there at 1510 hrs and arrive here at 1635 hrs, head of commercial PR Sherliza Zaharudin told reporters in Bangalore.

One-way fare on this low-cost and no-frills airline sans administration fee, with only online fees being charged, would be around Rs 4,000-Rs 6,000.

The Kuala Lumpur-Chennai daily flight services would begin from May 17, while daily flights from Penang to Chennai would start from April 28. It would also start operating daily flight from Kuala Lumpur to Hyderabad from July 20 and from Delhi on August 4. It also plans to start flights from Kuala Lumpur to Mumbai four times a week starting May six.

Currently, it runs flights from four cities in India. Zaharudin said 60 per cent of its fliers are first timers.

The airline also plans to start flights from Delhi and Kolkata to Bangkok by end of this year, she added.