Continuing to spread its wings in the Indian market, AirAsia, the World's Best Low-Cost Airline, flew into the Silicon Valley of India today, with the launch of its inaugural flight on the Kuala Lumpur-Bangalore sector. With this launch, Bangalore becomes the seventh destination for AirAsia in India after Trivandrum, Kolkata, Chennai, Kochi Tiruchirappali and Mumbai. AirAsia is offering fares from as low as Rs. 1537/-* to guests traveling from Bangalore as part of its recently announced promotion offer of one million free seats. Bangalore, as part of AirAsia's global network will be part of the free seats campaign, which are up for grabs!

AirAsia will be operating its brand new Airbus A320 aircraft on the Bangalore-Kuala Lumpur route, with 100% load on its inaugural flight to and from Bangalore today. The sector is already witnessing a load factor of almost 85% in the first few weeks.

Speaking about the launch, Ms. Kathleen Tan, Regional Head of Commercial, AirAsia said, "We are excited to launch our services between Bangalore and Kuala Lumpur. The daily service is expected to cater to significant traffic including business and leisure travelers as well as students to and from the tech-hub in Southern India. In addition to this, the service is also expected to cater to and promote medical tourism in the city of Bangalore. AirAsia foresees a huge demand from the health sector with patients seeking medical assistance from institutions based in Bangalore."

On its inaugural flight from Kuala Lumpur, AirAsia carried 15 children with Congenital Heart Disease requiring an open heart surgery. The children will be operated upon at Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Institute, Bangalore, the largest heart hospital for children in the world.