AirAsia Introduces New Lower Price Range for Pre-Booked Meals

 

 

SEPANG, 29 FEBRUARY 2012 – AirAsia, the world’s best low-cost airline will be reducing the prices of its pre-booked in-flight meals regionally effective Thursday, 1 March 2012 with savings up to 30% when booked online at www.airasia.com. 

 

This good news comes after AirAsia reduced its check-in baggage and sports equipment fees two weeks ago, and it will benefit all AirAsia guests as they are able to enjoy more of AirAsia’s value-added services at lower costs.

 

AirAsia’s Regional Head of Commercial, Kathleen Tan said, “AirAsia always strives to listen to our guests, and take into account their feedback on how we can make their AirAsia experience a better one. In line with our efforts to reduce travel costs and provide more value to our guests, we decided to revise our pre-booked in-flight meal prices as well, apart from the recent reduction of check-in baggage and sports equipment fees. And as a truly Asean airline, we have also continuously improved on our selection of meals on board with tastes from across the region.”

 

Shireen Chia, Regional Head of Catering & In-Flight Service, AirAsia comments, “AirAsia’s commitment is to make all our guests’ flying experience a better one, and one of the grouses we commonly hear is guests not being able to have their preferred meals on board. We hope that the price reduction for online pre-booked meals will encourage more people to pre-book their preferred meals online along with their flight bookings. Not only can they save up to 30% when they pre-book their meals online, but guests can also ensure that they can enjoy their favourite meals on board.”

 

AirAsia’s pre-booked meals consist of a hot meal with a bottle of 100ml mineral water and are now priced at RM7.90 per set for Frankster (chicken hot dog), Cheesy Extravaganza Pizza Wedge, Smoked Chicken Focaccia, Pancakes with Butter and Maple Syrup and Assorted Sandwiches set; RM9.90 per set for the all-time favourite Pak Nasser’s Nasi Lemak, Uncle Chin’s Chicken Rice, Green Curry Chicken, Asian Fried Rice with Satay, Chicken Satay, Ginger Fried Rice with Vegetarian Chicken, Roast Chicken with BBQ Sauce, Spaghetti Chicken Bolognaise, Vegetarian Pulao Briyani, Bukhara Chicken Briyani. The meals were priced at RM9 and RM12 respectively before the price reduction.

 

The Special Meal of the Month, which features different food highlights every two months based on the various occasions in countries throughout Asean such as Hari Raya, Deepavali, Christmas and Chinese New Year in Malaysia, as well as Songkran festival in Thailand will also be reduced to RM13.90 per set from RM15 previously.

 

AirAsia also added three new items to its pre-book menu line-up with Beef Stew, Tandoori Chicken Tortilla Wrap and Mat Kelapa (fresh coconuts) to suit the appetite of the various nationalities that travel with the world’s best low-cost airline. These new items are also available for pre-booking at only RM9.90 and RM7.90 per set.

 

“Many guests do not know this, but there is now an option to purchase more than one meal when they pre-book it online. This would also lead to more savings for our guests, apart from a guarantee that you will have a great, tummy-filled flight. The new price range is even more affordable than a fast-food meal set, and we hope that our guests will enjoy both the new price as well as the new pre-book menu line-up,” Shireen added.

 

Guests who own the BIG Card will also be rewarded with 2X BIG Points when they pre-book their meals along with their flights. For more information about BIG, please log on to www.tune2big.com. 

 

Apart from in-flight meals, guests are also able to pre-book their check-in baggage allocation, select their seats via Pick-A-Seat and Hot Seats, travel insurance via AirAsia Insure as well as AirAsia Comfort Kits, amongst others.

 

Guests who have yet to pre-book their meals for their flights are able to do so via ‘Manage My Booking’ at the AirAsia website up to 48 hours before their scheduled flight. Guests are also able to add in all the other value-added services via the same method as well.

 

AirAsia has also recently reduced its processing fees from RM8 per guest per sector, to only RM5 per guest per sector; apart from waiving the counter check-in fees for international bound guests across all of its hubs and stations throughout their route network which spans across 152 routes, 77 destinations and 23 countries.

 

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