AIRASIA IS WORLD`S BEST LOW COST AIRLINE

KUALA LUMPUR, April 3 (Bernama) -- AirAsia took Skytrax's "World's Best Low
Cost Airline" award in a ceremony held at the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2009 in
Hamburg, Germany on Wednesday.

In a statement here Friday, AirAsia said the award, given by Skytrax under
the 2009 World Airline Awards, was handed to AirAsia following a survey which
lasted eight months, covering interviews with more than 16.2 million travellers.

It said the award followed the final results of the annual
World Airline Survey by Skytrax between August 2008 and March 2009 and which had
respondents from diverse nationalities.

The survey evaluated passenger satisfaction for an airline's products and
service standards.

AirAsia said the highly regarded award, also dubbed as the "travellers'
choice", has cemented its competency in providing excellent and value-for-money
services through its incessant innovations and trend-setting measures.

"The award marks a major milestone for AirAsia as the award is acknowledged
the world over and the only award to be conferred based on independent
judgements of our very own guests," said Tony Fernandes, AirAsia's
group chief executive officer.

Meanwhile, Skytrax chief executive officer, Edward Plaisted said the
dramatic growth of low cost airlines across the world in the past two years has
made the award won by AirAsia as one of the most fiercely contested
under the Skytrax awards.

London-based Skytrax, established in 1989, are specialist research advisors
to the air transpot industry.

-- BERNAMA