 Air Asia anyone?
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"Sjoerd" <sjoerdhahahaha@xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:<408ed091$0$64453$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
> I just booked some flights on Air Asia for incredibly cheap fares. Anyone
> here who flew on them? Any experiences to share? I will do BKK -KUL and SIN-
> BKK.
I flew AK a few weeks ago from Johor Bahru to Kota Kinabalu and
back from KK to KL.
It seems like a very useful airline for me in the region. I usually
fly into KUL or SIN and often continue on to Borneo. During SARS all
direct flights from SIN to BKI disappeared and have not reappered
yet.
Since getting to JB from Singapore is no problem at all (Taxi S$50,
bus much cheaper) I was delighted to find out that this alternative
now exists.
AK does not have a lot of planes, so be prepared for schedule changes.
They DO send you an email when that happens. I was a bit careless and
did not phone them before the return flight. And since I was on
Sipadan I had no access to my email. Got to terminal 2 at BKI to find
out the flight had already left (T2 is the no-frills side of BKI, no
shops, no food, and you wait outside). They were nice enough to put me
on the next flight to KUL. From where I then caught the next SIN shuttle
at my own expense. No big deal.
Seat pitch is tight. But you cannot argue with RM 99 for JB-KK (@ EUR 20).
Checked luggage limit is 15kg. Bit of a problem for me as a diver, I
rarely get my weight down below 30kg, and only if I travel with less
than 5 t-shirts. Extra kg is only RM 8 though, and they give you some
free excess baggage if you ask nicely.
Snacks and drinks are sold for cash. Coke RM 3, Nasi lemak or a sandwich
for RM 7 or so. Cheap and quite ok. Want service? Fly SQ. Except that they
don't do BKI at the moment.
Conclusion: I'll use them again.
And it'll be quite interesting to see what the arrival of the no-frills
will do to the market in this area.
M
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