AIRASIA WILL CONTINUE FLIGHTS TO JAPAN DESPITE NUCLEAR THREAT

KUALA LUMPUR, April 1 (Bernama) -- The world's best low cost airline,
AirAsia Bhd, will continue to fly to Japan although the land of the rising sun
is being faced by uncertain radiation leaks from a crippled nuclear-power plant.

Group Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes said Airasia would,
instead continue to provide full capacity flights to the world's third-largest
economy, as a sign of solidarity.

He said AirAsia's decision was consistent with the airline's earlier stance
when it continued to fly to Christchurch, New Zealand, which was hit by an
earthquake on Feb 22 and to Bandar Aceh which was almost wiped out when Tsunami
hit Indonesia on Dec 26, 2004.

Airasia's long-haul affliate Airasia X has been flying to Tokyo's Haneda
airport from Kuala Lumpur since December last year.

"AirAsia's presence in these areas is also to help these disaster striken
countries. We don't want to dissapoint them," he said in an exclusive interview
from London with Bernama Radio24 Thursday night.

Fernandes, who received the Commander of the Order of the British
Empire award from Queen Elizabeth II in London Wednesday, is presently, without
a doubt, one of the most admired executive-turned-entrepreneur in the Malaysian
corporate world.