In a disappointing turn for budget travelers heading to Thailand, AirAsia X will suspend its flights between Sydney and Bangkok just three months after resuming the service. Starting February 18, 2025, Thai AirAsia X will cease direct flights on this route, marking the end of the only low-cost option connecting New South Wales to Thailand’s capital.
The budget airline had reinstated flights on December 1, 2024, but now plans to reduce its current six-times-weekly schedule to just five flights a week before terminating the service altogether later in February.
In an official statement, Thai AirAsia X confirmed the suspension as part of an “operational adjustment” and assured that such decisions were made with long-term improvements in mind. “We wish to assure that such decisions are never taken lightly and are made to better serve our guests,” the airline added.
After withdrawing from Sydney, Thai AirAsia X will continue to serve key destinations from Bangkok, including Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Nagoya, Seoul, Shanghai, and New Delhi.
Meanwhile, the airline’s sister carrier, Indonesia AirAsia, recently announced the return of its Darwin-Denpasar (Bali) flights starting in March 2025. This follows the launch of AirAsia’s first-ever North Queensland route in August 2024, as well as the airline’s debut flights to Africa with a Kuala Lumpur-Nairobi route in November 2024.
AirAsia, which was named Skytrax’s “World’s Best Low-Cost Airline” for the 15th year in a row in 2024, continues to expand its network despite the setbacks on the Sydney-Bangkok route.