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Entries for November 11th, 2009

AirAsia’s sale proves to be a hit

PETALING JAYA: AirAsia’s website registered 300 million hits in the first 11 hours of its Free Seats campaign, its regional commercial head Kathleen Tan said.
She also noted that at least 300,000 seats were sold in less than 24 hours.
In a statement yesterday, she said AirAsia’s server capacity had been doubled to cope with the congestion [...]

SIA reports Q2 loss but sees outlook improving

SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA), the world’s biggest carrier by market value, reported a worse-than-expected quarterly loss as the global economic slowdown hit margins, but the airline said the outlook has improved.
“Advance bookings indicate that demand for air travel has stopped declining and is gradually recovering,” SIA said in a statement.
“Market conditions allow for some rollback [...]