AirAsia Adds New Sapporo Route

10 March, 2015 Rupert Orchard

On May 1, Thai AirAsia X will launch a daily direct flight between Bangkok and Sapporo.

It's getting easier and easier to get to Niseko! On May 1, Thai AirAsia X will launch a daily direct flight between Bangkok and Sapporo, a route that is currently only serviced by Thai Airways. The flight will appeal to a growing number of tourists travelling to Japan from Thailand, a figure that almost doubled in 2014.

Thailand was among four Southeast Asian countries surveyed recently whose respondents chose Hokkaido as the most appealing travel destination in Japan, ahead of Kanto, Kansai, Okinawa and Kyushu.

In addition to the new northern Japan route, AirAsia has also increased the frequency of flights to from Bangkok to Tokyo and Osaka, both changes going into effect on March 26.

Air Asia Bangkok to Sapporo

Image: Wikimedia Commons

Rupert Orchard
Rupert Orchard

Rupert works for HT Holidays and returned to Niseko full-time in 2014, seven years after first discovering the resort's famous powder as a ski instructor. In between, he has worked in the ski industry in China and Canada, but in the end, couldn't resist a return to the resort that made him fall in love with the sport and the industry.