Air Asia Indonesia Perth flights started today

[Greg Wood 3]

Hi all,

 

Air Asia Indonesia's push into Australia started today with the airline's

inaugural 1st flight arriving into Perth at 04.35hrs today as flight QZ8620.

 

The aircraft departed at 05.46hrs for the return flight QZ8621 to Bali.

 

Air Asia Indonesia will use A320 on this new route, and today's inaugural

flight was operated by A320-216 PK-AXI.

 

The airline uses the callsign: Wagon Air, and has a mixed fleet of 7 B737

and 7 A320 aircraft.

 

Regards Greg

[Ryan Soh 3]

Wagon Air... Hmm... Looks like a spill over from the days when the airline was still known as AW Air. I believe "AW" was Air Wagon but somehow when expanaded together with the initials "Air Wagon Air" doesn't really make sense. Some people speculated since the ex-President Abdurrahman Wahid had a huge stake in this carrier, the initials AW were really his name.

[Alan B. 5]

Wagon Air... Hmm... Looks like a spill over from the days when the airline was still known as AW Air. I believe "AW" was Air Wagon but somehow when expanaded together with the initials "Air Wagon Air" doesn't really make sense. Some people speculated since the ex-President Abdurrahman Wahid had a huge stake in this carrier, the initials AW were really his name.

 

Interesting. Always wondered what the AW meant. Thanks for the info Ryan!

 

I'm sure that is gonna be a money making sector for AK Indonesia.

[Guest redharahmad]

Interesting. Always wondered what the AW meant. Thanks for the info Ryan!

 

I'm sure that is gonna be a money making sector for AK Indonesia.

 

I'm pretty sure it is..they've added a second daily frequency on this route and on most days their return fares are even more expensive than the full-service Garuda!

[LeeTZ 1]

Now we have various ways to go Perth.....

[Peter Smith 1]

Was PK-AXF, not -AXI. We took -AXF both ways (up on 17th, back on 20th)