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Sabah Welcomes Progress As AirAsia Goals For 5 Million Worldwide Arrivals In 2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
AirAsia is setting an bold aim of welcoming 5 million company to Sabah in 2025, almost doubling the three.7 million arrivals recorded in 2024. This goal encompasses each home and worldwide vacationers, underscoring the airline’s pivotal function in boosting regional connectivity and driving financial progress.
To attain this milestone, AirAsia plans to reinforce its community of 27 routes, which embody 13 home and 14 worldwide connections to and from Sabah. These upgrades goal to help a 35% improve in annual flights, surpassing 51,500, and a 43% rise in seat capability.
In 2024, the airline considerably contributed to Sabah’s success in attracting over three million guests, cementing its standing as a pacesetter in fostering connectivity and selling tourism progress within the area.
As a part of its dedication to bolstering Sabah’s tourism ecosystem, AirAsia is conducting a sequence of roadshows all through the state. These occasions goal to strengthen partnerships, improve crucial tourism parts reminiscent of lodging, actions, and transportation, and discover strategic investments to raise the area’s tourism infrastructure.
In 2024, AirAsia joined forces with the Sabah Tourism Board (STB) in a strategic five-year collaboration geared toward revitalizing the area’s tourism trade. This partnership focuses on enhancing air connectivity throughout the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Progress Space (BIMP-EAGA) whereas additionally increasing routes to key locations throughout the broader ASEAN area, North Asia, and Oceania from 2024 by way of 2028.
