To commemorate the 100th plane, the Airbus features a dragon livery, which is the Chinese zodiac sign for both this year and the airline group’s CEO Tan Sri Tony Fernandes.
The 375 aircraft booked by AirAsia are worth a collective US$25 billion (RM76 billion).
“We started with only two aircraft 10 years ago, and here we are with our 100th Airbus 320, which makes us the largest A320 operator in Southeast Asia,” Fernandes said at the welcoming ceremony.
The dragon livery took 20 painters 12 days and 600 litres of paint to complete.
The aircraft will operate on the KL-Macau route initially and later also serve KL, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and other cities in Indonesia and China.
AirAsia has carried over 140 million passengers over the past 10 years.
“We are about to hit 200 million passengers,” said Fernandes.
