AIQ

AIQ may refer to:

Thai AirAsia

Thai AirAsia (SET: AAV, Thai: ไทยแอร์เอเชีย) is a joint venture of Malaysian low-fare airline AirAsia (Thai: แอร์เอเชีย) and Thailand's Asia Aviation. It serves AirAsia's regularly scheduled domestic and international flights from Bangkok and other cities in Thailand.

Thai AirAsia was the only low-cost airline operating both domestic and international flights from Suvarnabhumi Airport. The airline transferred all operations from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Don Mueang International Airport effective 1 October 2012.

According to FlightStats, as of 2013, Thai AirAsia is the second best on-time airline in Asia, with an estimated 96.08% of flights arriving on time.

History

Thai AirAsia launched domestic operations on February 2004.

On 15 February 2006 it was announced that Asia Aviation, a registered Thai company, had taken Shin Corp's 50% stake in Thai AirAsia. Asia Aviation was a joint venture set up by Shin Corp., which held 49% of Asia Aviation's shares while 51% was held by Thai investor Sittichai Veerathammanoon.

Aimaq dialect

Aimaq (Persian: آیماقی‎‎) is a dialect of the Persian language spoken west of the Hazarajat (or Hazarastan), in central northwest Afghanistan, eastern Iran, and Tajikistan. It is the dominant ethnolect of Persian spoken by the Aymāq people. It is very close to the Khorasani and Dari dialects. The Aimaq people are thought to have a 5-15% literacy rate.

Dialects

Subdialects of Aimaq include:

Phonology

Phonetically, as one of the eastern Persian dialects, Aimaq dialect resembles a formal or classical form of Persian (Farsi).

Vowels: