Budget travel blow: Sydney loses its only low-cost flights to Bangkok
Less than three months after recommencing flights between Sydney and Bangkok, AirAsia X will suspend flights between the cities in a blow to budget travel to Thailand.
Thai AirAsia X resumed flights on the route on 1 December 2024, but from 18 February 2025, will no longer operate the service, Sydney Airport confirmed to Karryon.
The Thai AirAsia X flights are currently the only low-cost option between the NSW and Thai capitals as well as the only service between Australia and Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport.
The route will decrease from its current six-times-weekly schedule to five flights per week in February before terminating later that month.
Karryon has contacted AirAsia for comment.
After it withdraws from Sydney, Thai AirAsia X will serve seven key ports from Bangkok, including Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Nagoya (all Japan), Seoul (South Korea), Shanghai (China) and New Delhi (India).
Last week, sister carrier Indonesia AirAsia announced the recommencement of its Darwin-Denpasar (Bali) flights in March 2025.
This followed the launch of AirAsia’s first service to North Queensland in August 2024 and the airline’s first-ever flights to Africa – between Kuala Lumpur and Nairobi (Kenya) – in November 2024.
Last year, AirAsia won Skytrax’s ‘World’s Best Low-Cost Airline’ award for the 15th consecutive year.
