- CEO
- Tharumalingam Kanagalingam
- Full Time Employees
- 1,401
- Sector
- Transportation
- Industry
- Airlines
- Address
- Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
- IPO Date
- Jul 10, 2013
- Business
- AirAsia Group Berhad operates as an investment holding company and a low-cost network carrier providing scheduled commercial air transportation, air cargo, and aviation support services across the Asia-Pacific region and international markets. The company provides scheduled passenger air travel services across domestic, regional, and medium-to-long-haul flight routes; ancillary travel products and services, including assigned seat selection, checked and excess baggage handling, in-flight meals and beverage catering under the Santan brand, onboard duty-free merchandising, travel insurance, priority boarding, and Premium Flatbed cabin upgrades; air freight and cargo transportation services; aircraft wet and dry charter flight services; and airline ground handling, crew training, and maintenance coordination. The company operates through a multi-hub network with operational bases in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Cambodia, serving leisure, business, and value-conscious travelers across Southeast Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Australasia, the Middle East, and Africa. Its airline operating subsidiaries and affiliates include AirAsia Malaysia, Thai AirAsia, Indonesia AirAsia, Philippines AirAsia, AirAsia Cambodia, and long-haul units AirAsia X and Thai AirAsia X, utilizing a commercial fleet composed of Airbus A320, A321, and A330 family aircraft. Founded in 1993 with airline operations launched under current ownership in 2001, the company is headquartered in Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia. In recent corporate developments, the company completed a comprehensive restructuring in 2026 in which the publicly listed entity, formerly known as AirAsia X Berhad, acquired the short-haul airline operations of AirAsia Berhad and AirAsia Aviation Group Limited from Capital A Berhad, officially rebranding to AirAsia Group Berhad under ticker symbol AAGB on Bursa Malaysia to consolidate all AirAsia-branded aviation assets under a unified corporate structure. Concurrently, the group completed an equity private placement to strengthen its capital base, initiated international and local debt refinancing programs to optimize its balance sheet, expanded regional connectivity with the operational launch of AirAsia Cambodia, and commenced fleet modernization initiatives incorporating new-generation Airbus A321LR aircraft for extended narrowbody route development.