AirAsia earns highest safety rating vs COVID-19

MANILA, Philippines — AirAsia Philippines has received for the second consecutive year the highest safety standards for its efforts to protect its passengers from COVID-19.

Airlines under  AirAsia Aviation Ltd., a subsidiary of Capital A Bhd., has been awarded for upholding the highest levels of safety and operational integrity with a 7/7 rating from the experts at airlineratings.com.

AirAsia Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and India received the recognition for their robust and comprehensive COVID-19 mitigation plans.

The airline group was also named as among the top 20 safest low cost airlines for 2022 by airlineratings.com.

“This is a fantastic achievement for our airline group and I thank the experts at airlineratings.com for understanding and recognizing the amount of work we have put into making sure our airlines are not only safe and affordable, but more contactless and hygienic than ever in the new world of travel,” AirAsia Aviation CEO Bo Lingam said.

“Safety is the number one determining factor for air travellers and this is more important than ever now that we have started living with the virus,” he said.

Lingam said AirAsia has made it mandatory that only  fully vaccinated guests are allowed onboard its flights, which are operated by fully vaccinated flight crew.

“This also applies to ground staff at the terminal including those handling baggage and guest services. On top of that, AirAsia pilots and crew are sent for retraining and refresher courses so that they are always on top of the game,” Lingam said.

“As a leader in driving innovation to make the customer experience more seamless than ever,  we have truly stepped up our game with new technologies and procedures to take the hassle out of flying which our customers demand. These include our new FACES biometric facial recognition system to deliver an end to end fully contactless procedure for our guests,” he said.

AirAsia Philippines intends to do away with boarding passes with the launch of  FACES to its guests within the first quarter.

“The airlines in the AirAsia Group which we have acknowledged have continued to pass the major International Air Transport Association Operation (IATA Safety Audit - IOSA) which covers more than 1,060 parameters,” airlineratings.com editor-in-chief and founder Geoffrey Thomas said.

“We are thrilled to award AirAsia Group this significant achievement following a thorough review of their operations. We look forward to seeing AirAsia Group continue to soar to greater heights as one of the best low cost carriers in the world,” Thomas said.