airasia plan to budapest and Milan

air asia CEO spoke before a news conference marking Monday's opening of services between KL and Paris.

The carrier plans to add three or four European destinations, starting with Berlin or Cologne in the second half of this year, with Milan, Nice, Prague and Budapest under consideration for later, Fernandes said. it will connect conveniently from australia to europe,air asia currently fly to Gold Coast, Melbourne, Perth.AirAsia is in talks to buy more Airbus A330 aircraft to operate those routes, briefly heard about an idea AAX might go as far as NY. While this is a good idea, would that also be an opportunity to add on one Euro location as the plane must stop on the way? Extension of STN flight might not be that attractive as the planes are often full anyway. I would recommend one of the places in Eastern / Central Europe such as Krakow in Poland where there are many people around with families on US East Coast and would be happy to have a choice over a local carrier, which is pretty lousy these days. No idea if AAX would be allowed to sell tickets on such proposed KRK-NYC route, probably needs to incorporate a subsidiary in EU. Other interesting stopover points would be Prague in Czech Rep and Budapest in Hungary as well as Berlin. You can even try a 4 times a week service to NYC, stopping twice in, say, Prague and twice in Krakow.