AirAsia Seeks To Start Bahrain Hub This Year, Deputy CEO Says

Regional low-cost carrier AirAsia is seeking to start its Middle East hub in Bahrain as early as this year after consolidating its long and short-haul airline businesses under a single entity, one of its newly-appointed top executives said Wednesday.

“We will increase connectivity to the West,” Farouk Kamal, deputy group chief executive officer of AirAsia X Bhd., said in a interview with Bloomberg Television.