AirAsia has been expanding into new businesses including fintech, ride-hailing as well as food and parcel deliveries. Here's what else they have planned:
, the world’s second-largest aircraft leasing company with a fleet of more than 800 aircraft as of December 2021. Financial details were not disclosed.including fintech, ride-hailing as well as food and parcel deliveries in support of its efforts to build a superapp that will compete with Southeast Asia’s tech titans such as Indonesia’s GoTo and Singapore’s Grab and Sea Group.
“We are now much more than just an airline with over 20 products and services on our superapp leveraging off each other including flights, hotels, food, retail, delivery, ride hailing and more,” Fernandes said in a statement. “I am truly excited about this partnership between Avolon and AirAsia and the potential for zero-emissions ultra-short-haul air travel in Southeast Asia.
In addition to their eVTOL partnership, Avolon and AirAsia will also work together to pursue local certification, conduct research on potential market opportunities and infrastructure requirements of unmanned air mobility services across the region, the partners said. AirAsia will also leverage its travel and lifestyle superapp to help support and build an eVTOL ride sharing platform with Avolon.
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