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Thai AirAsia adds new fifth freedom service to Okinawa via Hong Kong
April 15th 2025
Thai AirAsia will start a new daily one-stop service to the Japanese island of Okinawa from its Bangkok Don Mueang hub from June 1. Read More » The service will operate as a Bangkok Don Mueang-Hong Kong-Naha (Okinawa) routing. The new route adds to the LCC’s existing nonstop flights from Don Mueang to Hong Kong and Naha, as well as its Don Mueang-Taipei Taoyuan-Naha service. It will be Thai AirAsia’s first fifth-freedom route from Hong Kong. “This new route marks Thai AirAsia’s groundbreaking service with a stopover in Hong Kong, a key strategic market and global financial hub,” Thai AirAsia CEO, Santisuk Klongchaiya, said. “Our objective is to serve the continuously increasing travel demand between Hong Kong and Japan as strongly indicated by our market research.” Santisuk said expanding the LCC’s network through fifth freedom services was a “key strategy for growth”.
