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AirAsia to cut two routes to Darwin next month
March 4th 2026
AirAsia will end nonstop flights to Darwin from Bali and Kuala Lumpur next month. Read More » The service from Kuala Lumpur is operated by AirAsia Malaysia, while the Bali route is flown by Indonesia AirAsia. Both routes, which started less than a year ago, are ending on April 28. The LCC group said it was a difficult decision to withdraw from Darwin. "Despite operating the routes for close to 12 months in the hope that demand would grow to a sustainable level, passenger numbers have remained commercially unsustainable," AirAsia said. "This decision was reached in a spirit of transparency and mutual respect, and AirAsia remains open to returning to Darwin should market conditions change." While AirAsia is dropping Darwin from its Australian network, the airline group is adding flights from Kuala Lumpur to Perth and from Bali to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth. "The scale of what we are building in Australia is significant," AirAsia X chief commercial officer, Amanda Woo, said. "We are not just adding seats, we are giving Australians genuinely affordable access to Asia and the world, from four major cities, with more to come."
