Asia-Pacific airlines have lost billions of dollars this year, with jets grounded in Covid-19 transportation freezes.

Now, as some of the world's strictest pandemic-related travel rules begin to ease, they're ramping up flights and ticket offers.

Asian travel agencies and carriers told Reuters they're seeing a surge in bookings and travel enquiries as countries like Malaysia and Vietnam allow domestic flights to resume from this week after months of strict lockdowns.

While airline industry group IATA does not expect a significant improvement in Asia-Pacific international travel until “later in 2022” — predicting cumulative losses of $11.2 billion this year, narrowing to $2.4bn next year — carriers from AirAsia Group to VietJet Aviation , Singapore Airlines, Fiji Airways and Qantas are already increasing capacity.

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