AirAsiaX adds more services between the Gold Coast and Kuala Lumpur

AIRASIA X has increased its services to seven weekly flights into the Gold Coast, adding another 40,000 seats a year between the city and Kuala Lumpur.

BUDGET long-haul airline AirAsia X has increased its services to seven weekly flights into the Gold Coast, adding another 40,000 seats a year between the city and Kuala Lumpur.

The airline started its expanded weekly schedule with seven flights per week, up from five, to meet growing demand from yesterday.

The move comes as AirAsia X begins flying twice daily between its Malaysian hub and Sydney and Perth, and boosts its service between Adelaide and Kuala Lumpur from four weekly flights to five.

The airline began double daily services from Melbourne on October 1.

AirAsia X had previously operated 12 weekly flights in Sydney and Melbourne; and 9 weekly flights in Perth.

AirAsia X's rise in capacity across its five Australian ports follows the finalisation of a revised bilateral agreement between the Australian and Malaysian governments, and an expansion of AirAsia X's long-haul fleet of Airbus A330-300s which will comprise 17 aircraft at the end of December 2013.