{"id":216839,"date":"2026-02-12T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=216839"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T09:51:20","slug":"airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-london-bahrain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein","title":{"rendered":"AirAsia X plans to return to London via its new Bahrain hub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\n
\n
\n

La compagnie malaisienne \u00e0 bas co\u00fbts long-courriers AirAsia X a confirm\u00e9 la reprise de ses vols entre Kuala Lumpur et Londres. Cette ligne, exploit\u00e9e jusqu’en 2012, \u00e9tait \u00e0 l’\u00e9poque sans escale. Cette fois-ci, elle effectuera une escale \u00e0 Bahre\u00efn, promu nouveau hub dans la constellation AirAsia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Les vols seront effectu\u00e9s \u00e0 partir du 26 juin \u00e0 bord d’un appareil Airbus A330 proposant une classe Premium – avec si\u00e8ge couchette, et une classe \u00e9conomique. L’a\u00e9roport desservi sera celui de Londres-Gatwick \u00e0 raison d’une fr\u00e9quence quotidienne. A Bahre\u00efn, les passagers seront en transit entre 1h25 et deux heures, selon le jour.<\/p>\n

La ligne marquera les d\u00e9buts de Bahre\u00efn en tant que premier \u00ab\u00a0hub\u00a0\u00bb d’AirAsia hors d’Asie. De Bahre\u00efn, la compagnie low-cost vise de fait une desserte de l’Asie du Sud-Est mais aussi du Moyen-Orient, de l’Afrique et de l’Europe. Et notamment des destinations secondaires.<\/p>\n

Selon Tony Fernandes, co-fondateur d’AirAsia, Bahre\u00efn pourrait m\u00eame devenir une porte d\u2019entr\u00e9e r\u00e9gionale pour des villes secondaires insuffisamment reli\u00e9es \u00e0 l’intercontinental.<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u00a0Faire en Europe et en Afrique ce que nous avons r\u00e9ussi en Asie\u00a0\u00bb<\/h2>\n

La r\u00e9ception d’Airbus A321XLR \u00e0 tr\u00e8s long rayon d’action lui donnera les moyens de son ambition. \u00ab Cet avion me permet de commencer \u00e0 envisager de faire en Europe et en Afrique ce que nous avons r\u00e9ussi en Asie<\/em> \u00bb, a expliqu\u00e9 Tony Fernandes, \u00e9voquant des liaisons secondaires potentielles comme Penang-Cologne ou Penang-Prague<\/a>. L’an dernier, AirAsia a sign\u00e9 une commande pour 50 Airbus A321XLR avec une option pour 20 appareils suppl\u00e9mentaires. Les premiers avions devraient int\u00e9grer la flotte en 2028.<\/p>\n

Les A330 s’ins\u00e9reraient de leur c\u00f4t\u00e9 uniquement sur les routes \u00e0 plus fort potentiel ainsi que sur des distances plus longues. Le transporteur a par ailleurs confirm\u00e9 qu’il allait prochainement offrir un second vol quotidien entre Kuala Lumpur et Istanbul. En attendant la mont\u00e9e en puissance de Bahre\u00efn.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AirAsia X is continuing its global airline strategy by planning to launch a daily flight from Kuala Lumpur to London Gatwick via Bahrain in June. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":216849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[1015,1137,1231,1361],"type-darticle":[52],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-216839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerien","tag-asie","tag-moyen-orient","tag-londres","tag-low-cost","type-darticle-breve","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLe hub de Bahre\u00efn se concr\u00e9tise pour AirAsia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Avec le lancement en juin d'un vol de Kuala Lumpur \u00e0 Londres Gatwick via Bahrein, le r\u00eave de compagnie globale devient r\u00e9alit\u00e9 pour AirAsia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-london-bahrain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AirAsia X pr\u00e9voit son retour \u00e0 Londres via son nouveau hub de Bahre\u00efn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Avec le lancement en juin d'un vol de Kuala Lumpur \u00e0 Londres Gatwick via Bahrein, le r\u00eave de compagnie globale devient r\u00e9alit\u00e9 pour AirAsia.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-london-bahrain\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Voyages d'affaires\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-02-12T09:37:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-12T09:51:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"453\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Luc Citrinot\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Luc Citrinot\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Luc Citrinot\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c74b2eea412d55da7482e81e95f8edc3\"},\"headline\":\"AirAsia X pr\u00e9voit son retour \u00e0 Londres via son nouveau hub de Bahre\u00efn\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-12T09:37:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-12T09:51:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein\"},\"wordCount\":347,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Asie\",\"Moyen-Orient\",\"Londres\",\"low-cost\"],\"articleSection\":[\"A\u00e9rien\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein\",\"name\":\"Le hub de Bahre\u00efn se concr\u00e9tise pour AirAsia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-02-12T09:37:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-02-12T09:51:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c74b2eea412d55da7482e81e95f8edc3\"},\"description\":\"Avec le lancement en juin d'un vol de Kuala Lumpur \u00e0 Londres Gatwick via Bahrein, le r\u00eave de compagnie globale devient r\u00e9alit\u00e9 pour AirAsia.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/02\\\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg\",\"width\":650,\"height\":453,\"caption\":\"AirAsia se pr\u00e9pare \u00e0 atterrir \u00e0 Bahre\u00efn, son nouveau hub sur l'axe Londres Gatwick-Kuala Lumpur (Photo: LC)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Accueil\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"AirAsia X pr\u00e9voit son retour \u00e0 Londres via son nouveau hub de Bahre\u00efn\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Voyages d'affaires\",\"description\":\"media fran\u00e7ais du Voyage d'Affaires & du MICE\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c74b2eea412d55da7482e81e95f8edc3\",\"name\":\"Luc Citrinot\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\\\/en\\\/author\\\/luccitrinot\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Bahrain hub takes shape for AirAsia","description":"With the launch in June of a flight from Kuala Lumpur to London Gatwick via Bahrain, the dream of a global airline is becoming a reality for AirAsia.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-london-bahrain\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"AirAsia X pr\u00e9voit son retour \u00e0 Londres via son nouveau hub de Bahre\u00efn","og_description":"Avec le lancement en juin d'un vol de Kuala Lumpur \u00e0 Londres Gatwick via Bahrein, le r\u00eave de compagnie globale devient r\u00e9alit\u00e9 pour AirAsia.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-london-bahrain\/","og_site_name":"Voyages d'affaires","article_published_time":"2026-02-12T09:37:07+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-02-12T09:51:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":650,"height":453,"url":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Luc Citrinot","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Luc Citrinot","Estimated reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein"},"author":{"name":"Luc Citrinot","@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c74b2eea412d55da7482e81e95f8edc3"},"headline":"AirAsia X pr\u00e9voit son retour \u00e0 Londres via son nouveau hub de Bahre\u00efn","datePublished":"2026-02-12T09:37:07+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-12T09:51:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein"},"wordCount":347,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg","keywords":["Asie","Moyen-Orient","Londres","low-cost"],"articleSection":["A\u00e9rien"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein","url":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein","name":"Bahrain hub takes shape for AirAsia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg","datePublished":"2026-02-12T09:37:07+00:00","dateModified":"2026-02-12T09:51:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c74b2eea412d55da7482e81e95f8edc3"},"description":"With the launch in June of a flight from Kuala Lumpur to London Gatwick via Bahrain, the dream of a global airline is becoming a reality for AirAsia.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/avions-dairasia-a-kl.jpg","width":650,"height":453,"caption":"AirAsia se pr\u00e9pare \u00e0 atterrir \u00e0 Bahre\u00efn, son nouveau hub sur l'axe Londres Gatwick-Kuala Lumpur (Photo: LC)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/airasia-x-kuala-lumpur-londres-bahrein#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Accueil","item":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"AirAsia X pr\u00e9voit son retour \u00e0 Londres via son nouveau hub de Bahre\u00efn"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/","name":"Business travel","description":"THE FRENCH BUSINESS TRAVEL & MICE MEDIA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/#\/schema\/person\/c74b2eea412d55da7482e81e95f8edc3","name":"Luc Citrinot","url":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/author\/luccitrinot"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216857,"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216839\/revisions\/216857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216839"},{"taxonomy":"type-darticle","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-darticle?post=216839"},{"taxonomy":"n_magazine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/n_magazine?post=216839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}