NEW DELHI: The Air Asia India brand sunset on October 31, 2023, just less than a decade after it started flying on June 12, 2014. The Tata-AirAsia Berhad JV had a turbulent journey due to the alleged control by the Malaysian partner. Things started clearing up only when Tatas decided to buy out AirAsia’s stake and decided to merge it with Air India Express(which they acquired last January) to create a mega low cost carrier (LCC) as part of the AI family.
These two LCCs’ merger has been approved by Competition Commission of India and is on track for this year end.
“The AirAsia India brand was sunset yesterday (Oct 31). Take a bow, all who worked hard to build the India franchise of this amazing brand, and represented what the brand stood for,” Aloke Singh said on SM Wednesday.
