The AirAsia group has responded to accusations by Australia's consumer watchdog that it misled customers with advertising of its fares for some routes out of Australia.
The airline is blaming an IT glitch.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is seeking penalties and legal costs from the Kuala Lumpur-based airline.
The ACCC alleges AirAsia X's website failed to show fares that included all taxes, duties, fees and other mandatory charges for some routes out of Melbourne, Perth and the Gold Coast, the watchdog said.
In a statement, Air Asia said, "The particular issues with the relevant flights related to whether all taxes and charges were displayed for customers which appears to have arisen from an IT issue in September 2011."
AirAsia said it was "carefully reviewing the contents of the ACCC's claims".
The low cost carrier said it had taken corrective action but was unaware of the matter before the ACCC brought its proceedings.
"As soon as the issue became known to us we resolved the issue on our website," the airline added.
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AirAsia have responded to their customer’s information being misled. There have been many glitches with computer systems and airline companies. This one in particular is interesting as AirAsia failed to display their taxes and charges for customers. The company were unaware of the situation but managed to resolve the situation. With advertisements online, it is important that the fares are displayed properly. However, it is becoming more difficult to keep track of the number of people attempting to hack systems. Even though the situation was seen as a “glitch”, many believe that hackers attempted to send a virus into the system.
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