[PW#503] Air inter

[nathanaelmt]

January 19th, 1957

Welcome and Selamat Datang to AirAsia, the first airline operating from Kuala Lumpur (KUL) and Seoul (ICN) airports. AirAsia was founded on August 14th, 1954 under the name of Royal Malayan Airlines or Penerbangan Diraja Melayu. The name was used until December 12th, 1956, since we operated new base at Seoul that day. The new name was accepted by The Minister of Transportation of Federation of Malaya or Kementrian Transportasi Persatuan Tanah Melayu.

AirAsia is currently running 36 routes a day to 32 destinations from Kuala Lumpur and Seoul, serving 5,084 passengers a day. Our aircraft fleet varies from several aircraft industries.

Aircrafts :
1 Douglas DC-4-1009
1 Douglas DC-7C
3 Lockheed 649 Constellation (soon to be replaced)
2+1 Lockheed R6V Constitution
1 Martin 4-0-4
2 Piaggio P.108 T-2

(numbers colored in blue indicates the number of order)

AirAsia is also proud to announce that we have initiated the meal service onboard on several routes and would expand to serve meal on more routes.

Future plans :
Replace old airplanes to newer airplanes
Operate new focus city (Manila or Shenzhen)

Now Everyone Can Fly

[nathanaelmt]

March 16th, 1957

AirAsia Announced New Airplane Order and New Destinations
AirAsia Headquarter, Kuala Lumpur, The Federation of Malaya

Our brand new Lockheed R6V Constitution arrived yesterday and now the R6V Constitution are serving Bombay / Mumbai from Kuala Lumpur once a day, and also a direct flight to Seoul from Kuala Lumpur once a day. The ticket price to Bombay is € 559 per passenger, and the Seoul destination's ticket price is € 480. You'll get food and beverage service twice, 1.5 hours after take off and 3 hours before landing for Bombay route or 2 hours before landing for Seoul route.

We also have ordered a Page HP.81 Hermes to substitute the first Lockheed 649 Constellation, fitted with 4 Bristol Hercules 763 engines and 82 seats. This order cost us € 25,976,312. The main reason why do we want to replace our Lockheed 649 Constellations is the age of our Lockheed 649 Constellations. Our Lockheed 649 Constellations are now 10.2 years old, and our daily maintenance fee for all of the aircrafts is € 779,488. We are also planning to phase out our Piaggio P.108 T-2s as they are now 9 years old. The second reason are, those 5 aircrafts was registered with Hong Kong registration, B-HLM to B-HLQ. We have this aircrafts with Hong Kong registration as these aircrafts was owned by (now inoperative) Cathay Pacific, where our Chairman was working at as the Chairman of Cathay Pacific. The reason of the closure was the market of Hong Kong has been too crowded because KirbAir has a strong network there. We have an option to order 4 more Page HP.81 Hermes as a replacing aircrafts of these old aircrafts.

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[nathanaelmt]

July 16, 1957

AirAsia Put An Order and Sold An Airplane
AirAsia Headquarter, Kuala Lumpur, The Federation of Malaya

Today, AirAsia has ordered another Handley Page P.81 Hermes, leaving 3 other options to buy the aircraft. The order cost us € 25,976,312. This airplane would be utilized for new routes instead of replacing the Lockheed 649 Constellations since our plan now is to keep expanding first. Those Lockheed 649 Constellations are now being utilized for domestic routes, but passengers don't have to be worry, because we keep maintain the airplanes at their very best condition.

We have also sold our first Lockheed 649 Constellation which was serving regional routes to JetDC in America. The plane was sold at around € 2,300,000 or 50% of the appraised value. That aircraft was first painted in white before the delegation of JetDC took it from Kuala Lumpur to The United States of America.

We are currently waiting for Sud-Est of France to launch the brand new Caravelles to be run in regional routes. The jet driven Caravelles would be used for replacing some propeller driven airplanes as the Caravelle have a faster speed.

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[nathanaelmt]

October 16th, 1957

AirAsia Put A Handley Page HP.81 Hermes Order
AirAsia Headquarter, Kuala Lumpur, The Federation of Malaya

In order to expand the network to more cities, we have ordered another Handley Page HP.81 Hermes for € 25,976,312, which is registered in Federation of Malaya as 9M-AAI, leaving with 2 options left. The option maybe changed to buy some brand new Tupolev Tu-104A that would be launched in 1958. The Tupolev Tu-104A will be the first jet in AirAsia's fleet, and would be utilized for a regional flights. We are also considering to order a Boeing 707-120 for some international flights.

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[nathanaelmt]

January 16th, 1958

AirAsia Has Started To Modernize The Fleet
AirAsia Headquarter, Kuala Lumpur, The Federation of Malaya

For the first time, AirAsia put an order of a Tupolev Tu-104A which cost us € 35,589,033. This is the very first jet powered aircraft we have ever had, and this is a milestone of our plan to modernize our fleet with newer yet faster aircraft. The Tupolev Tu-104A will be able to accommodate 85 passengers, 4 more seats than the Comet 4 and will be fitted with 2 Mikulin AM-3M-500 engines. Even that this aircraft type flies a bit slower and less range than the Comet 4, this type consumes less fuel. The aircraft will be registered as 9M-AAJ and will be delivered at March 16th, 1958.

We are also planning to afford some Tupolev Tu-104B which have more seats (100 seats) and faster speed with less fuel consumption than the Tupolev Tu-104A. We are also considering to afford some Comet 4B for regional routes and a Boeing 707-320 or a Douglas DC-8-10 for a future long haul route.

Now Everyone Can Fly

[nathanaelmt]

June 13th, 1958

AirAsia Opened A New Base in Bombay
Bombay, India

Finally, we have opened a new base in Bombay, India today in order to make routes to Middle East, Africa and Europe easier. The inauguration was attended by the CEO of AirAsia and the first 3 flights were Bombay - Colombo (AXM 301, once a day), Bombay - Delhi (AXM 302, twice a day) and Bombay - Dubai (AXM 303, twice a day). The Colombo route is currently flown by our Handley Page HP.81 Hermes, and a ticket cost €520. Our market share for the Bombay - Dubai route is 32% as the route has already flown by Chagos Airline.

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[BINDU]

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[nathanaelmt]

January 10th, 1959

AirAsia Ordered 2 Douglas DC-8-10
AirAsia Headquarter, Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaya

Today, the CEO of AirAsia has announced the order of 2 Douglas DC-8-10 that will be fitted with 4 JT3C-6 engines each.  The order cost us € 276,707,900 and the airplanes will arrive in 72 days from now. We prefer Douglas DC-8-10 than Boeing 707 series because the 707 consumes more fuel and also more expensive. We know that 707 are able to fly from Seoul to Los Angeles, but we still don't need that. We are still focusing for regional routes from Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Mumbai/Bombay.

We are planning to fly to Frankfurt and replace the Tupolev Tu-104A on Bombay - Dubai route. We are also planning to fly from Seoul to Bombay.

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[nathanaelmt]

November 8th, 1961

AirAsia Press Room is Back
AirAsia Headquarter, Kuala Lumpur, Federation of Malaysia

First, we want to apologize for the inactivity of our press room for almost 2 years due to some problems that is finished recently. We now want to report all things that happened recently in AirAsia.

We have bought some brand new planes, including 2 Douglas DC-8-32, 1 Douglas DC-8-50, 1 Comet 4B, 1 Sud Est SE Caravelle 210 VI-N and 1 Tupolev Tu-114. Those planes will replace some old planes in our fleet, like the Lockheed 649 Constellation, Lockheed R6V Constitution and Piaggio P.108 T-2.

2 of our Lockheed R6V have been scrapped as it was 11 years old at 1961 and was replaced by our Douglas DC-8-32 and our Tupolev Tu-114. The Tupolev Tu-114 is a very special airplane that is made by the famous Russian plane maker, Tupolev. It has 4 turboprop engines but with a speed of jet engines, lower fuel consumption than 4 jet engines powered planes, and more seats.

We have also ceased the Kuala Lumpur - Singapore route due to a dirty competition, and we could no more compete in that route.

Some new routes have been operated from our 3 bases, and we are now flying to 3 continents (Australasia, Asia and America. Middle East is considered Asia). Our destination in Australasia is Sydney, and our destination in America is Honolulu. We are going to fly more routes soon to Europe, Africa and America.

The In-Flight Entertainment system has been installed on-board selected airplanes, allowing passengers to watch some movies during their flight to Sydney, Honolulu, Bombay, Istanbul, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing. More routes and airplanes will be added soon to the IFE service.

Now Everyone Can Fly

[nathanaelmt]

Apr 5th, 1962

AirAsia is now Air inter
Air inter Headquarter, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Today, Air inter's CEO has decided to cease operation from Kuala Lumpur due to some big problems where a dirty competition could not be avoided, so we choose to move out from Kuala Lumpur. Air inter is officially found at 5 April 1962 and headquartered in Seoul. It is hard for us to go out from Kuala Lumpur, but we have to do it as we could do nothing else to avoid dirty competition there.

Air inter have met The Minister of Transportation of Italy or Il Ministro dei Transporti d'Italia to operate from Rome Leonardo da Vinci International Airport or called Rome Fiumicino Airport, and are now operating routes from Rome to Europe and Atlanta. All planes operating from Kuala Lumpur is now moved to Rome and Seoul for operating in new routes.

Air inter also have a subsidiary airline operating from Manila - Ninoy Aquino International Airport named Quadz (ICAO code SXQ), which are now flying domestic routes in Manila. Quadz's managers are now being trained by us, and Quadz are operating some airplanes from us.

Our current fleet consists of:
1 Comet 4B
1 Douglas DC-4-1009
1 Douglas DC-7C
2 Douglas DC-8-10
2 Douglas DC-8-30
1 Douglas DC-8-55
2 Lockheed 649 Constellation (soon to be phased out, replaced by SE 210 Caravelle VI-N)
1 Lockheed R6V Constitution
1 Martin 4-0-4 (soon to be sold to Quadz, replaced by SE 210 Caravelle VI-N)
4 Page HP.81 Hermes
2 Piaggio P.108 T-2
2 SE 210 Caravelle VI-N
1 Tupolev Tu-104A
1 Tupolev Tu-114

As routes from Kuala Lumpur has been closed, we have also removed the Malaysian Style Food from our In-Flight Food Service.

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[nathanaelmt]

April 10th, 1962

Air inter Announced The Order of Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N
Sud Aviation, France

Today, the CEO of Air inter has announced the order of 3 Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-N which are fitted with 2 RR Avon RA.29 Mk 531 engines each. This order cost Air inter €87,817,800. This new airplanes is intended to replace old propeller driven airplanes for routes inside Europe.

Until today, Air inter is serving 14,678 passengers daily with 100% loadfactor on every flight. Air inter is committed to make passengers feel that they are flying with their local airline.

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[nathanaelmt]

August 10th, 1962

Air inter Has Scrapped An Airplane
Air inter Rome Branch Maintenance, Rome, Italy

Today, Air inter has removed a Douglas DC-4-1009 from our fleet as the plane grows old and no one would buy it due to a small capacity and slow speed. The scrapped airplane earned us €1,300,154. All routes that was operated by this airplane has been moved to our brand new Sud Aviation SE.210 Caravelle.

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[nathanaelmt]

November 9th, 1962

Air inter Have Ordered A Comet 4B
deHavilland, London, United Kingdom

In order to introduce the fleet commonality to Air inter's fleet, we have ordered a deHavilland Comet 4B to replace our Tupolev Tu-104A. Fitted with 4 RR Avon Mk525B engines, this bird will be able to fly to a destination until 2359 nm from Rome, Seoul or Mumbay. This order cost us €68,758,961 and the plane would be delivered in 48 days after today. Our Tupolev Tu-104A will be used to another route from Mumbay or Seoul.

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