JAKARTA - AirAsia has ended its Melbourne-Denpasar and Adelaide-Denpasar services after both routes reached the final operating date announced by the airline for June 18. AirAsia said in a May 15 Australian network update that the affected services were operated by Indonesia AirAsia.
The airline said affected customers were being contacted directly with available options. Where possible, passengers would be helped through date changes or alternative services via AirAsia’s Kuala Lumpur hub.
AirAsia linked the suspension to higher operating costs. Captain Achmad Sadikin Abdurachman, General Manager of Indonesia AirAsia, said, “This decision has been made in response to the sustained increase in global jet fuel prices caused by the ongoing geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East.”
The May 15 update said the two routes were no longer operationally viable under current conditions. AirAsia did not announce a restart date for either the Melbourne-Bali or Adelaide-Bali service.
Melbourne-Bali was one of AirAsia’s newest Australia services. The airline said its inaugural Bali-Melbourne flight touched down on March 21, opening a daily Airbus A320 service that was expected to add more than 130,000 seats a year through Melbourne Airport.
Adelaide was also added during Indonesia AirAsia’s Australia expansion. The airline’s first Denpasar-Adelaide flight touched down on June 26, 2025, after services began from June 25. AirAsia said the route would operate four times a week using 180-seat A320-200 aircraft, creating more than 74,000 visitor seats a year through Adelaide Airport.
The end of the two routes removes direct AirAsia links from Melbourne and Adelaide to Bali, one of Indonesia’s busiest international leisure destinations. BPS-Statistics Indonesia’s Bali office said in a June 2 release that Bali recorded 553,328 direct foreign tourist visits in April 2026. Australian passport holders accounted for 26.46 percent of arrivals that month.
AirAsia had described Australia as a major market earlier this year. In a March 3 network update, the airline said it carried close to 1 million guests annually between Australia and Asia and operated 69 weekly frequencies across Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide in 2025.
The same March 3 update said Darwin-Kuala Lumpur and Darwin-Bali flights would stop from April 28. AirAsia said those Darwin routes had remained commercially unsustainable after close to 12 months of operation, with aircraft capacity to be redeployed to other Australian destinations.
