Fernandes: AirAsia X won’t buy Airbus A350


SINGAPORE: AirAsia X Bhd has no plans to buy the Airbus SE A350 widebody jet, the airline’s co-group CEO said, despite the airline having 10 of them on order.

“The A350 is not an aircraft we will buy,” AirAsia X co-group CEO Tan Sri Tony Fernandes said in a Facebook live chat from London yesterday. “Too expensive. Fares would go up.”

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