MALAYSIAN low-cost airline AirAsia has raised $443 million in a dual-tranche financing to refurbish planes that were grounded during the pandemic and refinance its lease liabilities, parent company Capital A said on Thursday.

Shares of Capital A were 4.6 percent higher as of 1049 GMT (6:49 p.m. in Manila). Bloomberg News reported the financing earlier in the day.

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