Kuala Lumpur (7 November 2013) – Nokia and AirAsia today jointly announced their collaboration in developing the AirAsia mobile app on the Windows Phone 8 platform.
Different from the airline’s current successful cross-platform mobile app, this latest initiative sees Nokia collaborating with AirAsia on its first dedicated mobile app for Windows Phone 8, which makes good use of the platform’s modern UI featuring interactive seat maps and voice search.
An app for the people
The AirAsia app leverages the Modern User Interface (UI) of Windows Phone giving it a modern, bold and elegant look. The AirAsia mobile app aims to enhance the travel experience of its customers by allowing them to book tickets, check flight status, manage their booking and also avail latest promotions with ease.
Speaking at the Launch Gary Chan, Head of Marketing, Nokia Pan Asia said, “This app is the first native app across platforms from AirAsia which will offer customers a seamless travel experience. Nokia will be working closely with AirAsia to develop this app equipping customers with innovative solutions to make travel planning easy, convenient and fast. We feel this app has all the right elements and sets a new benchmark in the industry for travel apps. .”
Kenny Wong, AirAsia Berhad Country Head of Commercial said, “AirAsia has always believed in the power of technology and communication to drive business. Our services are technology-backed, from booking and payment to check in. This association with Nokia and the development of our dedicated mobile app on the Windows Phone platform signify our aggressive approach in the use of technology to improve our guests’ experience and making travel seamless and convenient.
“We are certainly pleased to welcome AirAsia, Malaysia’s most popular low cost carrier, to the Windows Phone ecosystem! We continue our commitment to wow users with a phone that’s built uniquely around them and transform the way they connect with each other,” said Dinesh Nair, Director of Developer and Platform Evangelism for Microsoft Malaysia.
MDeC is committed to drive the growth of the Malaysian mobile app ecosystem via the MSC Malaysia Integrated Content Development programme (ICON). Now in its third installment, ICON3 aims to nurture local app developers to harness opportunities arising from the growing enterprise app industry by encouraging them to produce customized solutions and gain immediate opportunity by working with key industry players.
MDeC’s Director of Digital Enablement, Wan Murdani Mohamad said that MDeC is indeed very proud of the achievement by Walter- our own ICON developer, in the creation of the Air Asia mobile app. We hope this will encourage other local app developers to further grow their skill sets and flex their app development expertise in the enterprise arena”.
Key features of the AirAsia app will be:
- Voice recognition enabled search for booking flights
- Seamless and secure payment process via credit card.
- Detailed seating arrangement layout to choose the preferred seat
- Option to modify the baggage requirements and flight meals .
- Flight details automatically sync to the calendar.
- Live tile with flight details displayed on the home screen seven days prior to flight.
- Convenient access and management of AirAsia account
- Option to share your flight details through a text message.
Stay tuned for the AirAsia app on Windows Phone 8 which will be available very soon.
