AirAsia 2 Million Free Air Tickets
Dec 7th, 2005
Ai Ling told me that Air Asia is giving out 2 million free air tickets to all over the destinations that AirAsia flies to. She saw it from the ads in MSN Messenger window. It appeared in my MSN Messenger window too, as the bottom tiny row that I hardly noticed.
When I first heard of it, I was kind of skeptic as the free air tickets are excluded of taxes, fees and charges, which they may charge any amount they want, especially the “service charge” component. This is due to my previous experience with Tiger Airways too. When Tiger Airways launched new promotion right after I booked my air tickets to Hanoi, Vietnam, it raised the charges a bit, albeit still the savings was more than cover for it.
But Ai Ling told me that it was not the case. So I randomly checked a few destinations. It seems like it’s true, there is no hidden hike of charges, although I am not sure of what’s the previous charges are. The only thing that I don’t understand is fuel surchage. I thought the AirAsia CEO just recently said that all current year AirAsia’s fuel needs have been hedged?
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[…] AirAsia free tickets is very tempting. Initially I was not so keen on the news as I already have several places in mind, with top of the list to either Tibet or Daocheng Yading. Beside, I thought AirAsia only flies domestically in Malaysia or to Indonesia (yes, I have long time never follow the news of AirAsia). After a short chat with Wai Ling and Ai Ling, I noticed that contradict to my believe where most of the flight to exotic Asia destinations are from Bangkok, Thailand, AirAsia does fly to both Siem Reap and Phnom Penh in Cambodia from Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). A quick check revealed that the price for return ‘free’ air tickets to Cambodia is just MYR $143 (that’s the best part of online booking I like, where I can know the taxes, fees and charges beforehand, although it would be better if it’s added to ticket price instead). […]
[…] Booking at Air Asia’s Homepage was real nuisance. The website was slow, always returned error messages instead of proper pages or search results. Worse, it happens even at this wee hour. May be it’s due to overwhelming response to the free fares promotion AirAsia offers. Anyway, I still managed to book 6 free air tickets for my family and me to Macau from Kuala Lumpur. Departing 30 March 2006 and returning at 4 April 2006. The timing of AirAsia’s flights to Macau is not so preferable, may be most of its seats is for the gamblers who won’t and don’t care what time is it? All flights we going to take is midnight flight. Outgoing flight is due to no other choices, but incoming fight is more to our choice, as my brother wants to back earlier for work. […]