AirAsia X

AirAsia X is the long-haul arm of the AirAsia group, flying under the code D7 from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, where its head office sits in the RedQ building at the klia2 terminal. It applies the low-cost model to longer flights: A330s with between 365 and 377 seats, fares sold without extras, and a Premium Flatbed product for those who pay more. It shares the AirAsia website, app and back-office functions such as marketing and IT with the short-haul AirAsia airlines.

From FlyAsianXpress to AirAsia X

The airline began as FlyAsianXpress, a company set up to fly rural air services in Malaysia, which it gave up in April 2007. It was rebranded AirAsia X in September 2007, received its first Airbus A330 on 15 September 2007 and flew its first scheduled service, Kuala Lumpur to the Gold Coast in Australia, on 2 November 2007. Early shareholders included Virgin Group, with 16% in February 2008. The shares were listed on Bursa Malaysia on 10 July 2013.

The pandemic hit the long-haul operation hard. Scheduled passenger flights were suspended in March 2020, a debt restructuring ran from October 2020 to March 2022, and services resumed from April 2022.

Now the group's parent company

The listed company has since become the holding company for the whole AirAsia airline group. In January 2026 Capital A completed the sale of its airline businesses to AirAsia X Berhad, and in July 2026 the company was renamed AirAsia Group Berhad. The D7 airline still flies as AirAsia X: a group sale announced on 19 October 2026 included "AirAsia X's (D7) Premium Flatbed".

Network

Wikipedia's route table, dated October 2026, shows D7 flying from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo, Osaka, Sapporo, Busan, Taipei, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Melbourne, Denpasar, Karachi, Tashkent, Almaty and Istanbul, with seasonal flights to Jeddah and Medina. Services to Sydney, Seoul, Delhi, Chongqing and Changsha are shown as ending in late October 2026, and earlier flights to London, Paris, Nairobi and Honolulu are listed as ended. In its April–June 2026 results, published on 13 August 2026, the group said it had suspended underperforming long-haul routes and right-sized the fleet, and that the launch of a planned hub in Bahrain had been delayed.

Fleet

A Wikipedia fleet table dated July 2026 lists 20 aircraft: 19 Airbus A330-300s and one A321XLR, with 19 more A321XLRs on order. The plan described there is to move to an all-narrowbody fleet: the A330s are to leave by 2031, and an order for 15 A330-900s was cancelled in early 2026. The group said in August 2026 that new A321XLR and A220 deliveries would begin in 2028.