airasia ride drivers, Allstars to enjoy free health screening through a partnership with Malacca’s Mahkota Medical Centre

Malacca, 18 October 2022- The country’s fastest-growing e-hailing platform, airasia ride, today announces the partnership with one of the largest and most comprehensive private hospitals in Southern Peninsular Malaysia, the Mahkota Medical Centre (MMC), to provide health benefits for its ride-hailing drivers' community in Malacca.

Through this partnership, the first 30 airasia ride drivers and Allstars will enjoy a FREE* heart screening at MMC from now up until the end of October 2022. This is also in conjunction with World Heart Day, intending to raise and enhance awareness of heart diseases in the community. In addition, MMC provides FREE blood screening worth RM300* and the best deals on basic blood profile purchases at a discounted price of RM99* only for the first 100 airasia ride drivers. On top of that, the first 100 airasia Allstars will enjoy an RM200 cash rebate on health screening wellness or premier package*.

Besides the benefits for driver-partners, airasia ride users can enjoy RM3 off their ride to MMC by using the promo code ‘MMCRIDE.’ Both existing and new users can also enjoy RM10 off for trips from KLIA/KLIA2 to MMC and vice versa by using the promo code ‘MMCAIRPORT.’ Click on the ‘Ride’ icon on the airasia Super App to find out more.  

Lim Chiew Shan, Regional CEO of airasia ride, said, “We are proud to announce this partnership with MMC to provide health benefits to our ride-hailing drivers. As an e-hailing provider, drivers are essentially the most crucial part of the operations. We always prioritise our drivers’ health and well-being as we believe that our drivers will provide the best quality and safest service to our customers if they are physically and mentally healthy.

“We are extremely thankful to MMC for offering airasia drivers and Allstars the health benefits. We hope our drivers will take this opportunity to have regular health check-ups to stay in excellent condition on the road. We would also like to call on individuals interested in being part of the airasia ride drivers community to reach out to us.”

Stanley Lam, CEO of Mahkota Medical Centre, shared, “We are pleased to announce that we will be the first hospital in Melaka to offer discounted health services to AAR drivers as part of our collaboration with the e-hailing provider. This dedication is in line with our pledge to care for our community, which includes our local drivers.

“Furthermore, through this collaboration, we hope more individuals pay more attention to their heart health, especially since cardiovascular diseases are the number one killer in Malaysia. Our MyHeart campaign has gathered over 900 sign-ups, and we are thrilled to add AAR driver partners and AirAsia staff to this growing list.”

With the help of more than 53,000 registered drivers on the platform, airasia ride has recently reached two million completed rides within a year of operation. Individuals interested in becoming an airasia ride driver to transport our e-hailing guests can sign up here

airasia ride has recently become the first e-hailing platform in the region to offer full-time employment for its qualified drivers, allowing them to have job stability, a minimum monthly base income of RM3,500, including fuel benefits, that can go up to RM 8,000 per month inclusive of driver incentive scheme, staff benefits including medical coverage, EPF, SOCSO, travel benefits and more. In addition, airasia full-time drivers will be given priority airport transfer job assignments to earn more from airport pick-ups and drop-offs.

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