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[velvet boy]

i just got a return flight from london gatwick to bangkok for 400 quid via kuala lumpur. thats even with taxes and charges.. . i fly out on 9 december !! happy days

be quick as im sure these seats will be snapped up quicky

they are advertising one way flights to kuala lumpur for 50 quid !!

[luv u long time]

I think this is a great price at this time.
They issued similar flights a a year or so ago, but back then, £450-500 was easily the going rate elsewhere which made this Air Asia flight not worth it due to the smaller seating and pay for 'EVERYTHING' on board for drinks, meals, snacks, low luggage levels etc.
I'll have a look as I need to book a few internal flights. I'll see if there are good deals on that.

[Moo Yung]

Thanks, I had forgotten about Air Asia for UK to BKK.

I have been looking at flights for a friend coming Dec 17th to Jan 7th, peak dates.. He is about to book tomorrow and the best price we'd found was £1200. Air Asia are doing it for £650, he'll be well chuffed.

He'll probably find a few add ons and it might not be a great flight, but that's a fantastic price for those dates.

[velvet boy]

i just checked again and if you play around with the dates you can get it for about 410 quid !! take a look :

you need to keep trying different combinations of dates.. the earlier in december you can fly the cheaper it will be,

also the air asia website itself seems to have different prices.. sometimes they show the promo price and you come back 1 hour later and its gone.. and hour later its back again...

also you could just try booking a RTN to kuala lumpur and do the KL - BKOK leg seperately


Im thrilled as it was sheer luck and completely by chance that i checked it.. i had planned on Xmas in the UK .. instead i will be kicking it in LOS !!

http://www.skyscanne...nuary-2012.html

Good luck !

[travis bickle]

I did the london -kuala lumpur flight last year=dont wanna be a stick-in -the-mud,but its the worst flight ive ever been on,and the food the worst ive ever had on an airplane(and thats saying something)Unless you are on a really tight budget,,stay away from air asia long haul....short flights theyre perfect....I could rant on about how bad it was but.....well,you have been warned.

[velvet boy]

i know its not gonna be a very comfortable flight.. ive flown with them before on this route, its is a tough flight but considering most other fares were around £900-1000 + i cant complain... im just gonna fill myself up with food beforehand, hope on the plane take a sleeping tablet and wake up in KL... for me money is tight this year so it was a choice between taking this flight or else not going at all... so it was a no brainer really.. trust me ive done much worse journeys.. like being on a train in India for 2 days !

The £500 -600 ive just saved will pay for a good few nights out over there !

[Moo Yung]

Thanks to this post my mate Dirty Mike has now booked with Air Asia.

I don't think he's under any illusions and won't expect anything more than a flying tin can with potentially grumpy jobsworth staff. He's over the moon.

With the luggage add ons (15KG but no food) it took the flight price up to £721 (inc any annoying last minute £21 card charge). But with other flights on his non flexible dates over £1200 and including 5 hour stop overs, his trip was in doubt.

[cesar67]

last year, my flight from edinburgh was disrupted due to the snow, so i had to fly from GLA, to AMS, then via kuala lumpar, it is a fair old slog,
also remember you will also have to 2 hour flight from k l to bkk.
never again will i fly via KL the flights are long enough!!!

[Robi_slo]

Too late... BKK-Chiang Mai is already sold so I guess I'll go to CM alone.

BR

[Ken Do]

thanks for the post... looking to go in January

[pattaya gas]

Ken Do, on 18 November 2011 - 02:34 PM, said:

thanks for the post... looking to go in January

I Have just booked with travel genie for jan 18th , direct flight with thai air for £560 better than thai or eva air promotion rate .

[Tony Soprano]

I used Air Asia to go to and from Chiang Mai. The fare was great. They charge for picking your own seat,
checking a bag and any food or drink you have. I half expected they'd charge me for my seat belt. It was
OK for the 70 minute flight, but I wouldn't want to use them if they went from Atlanta to LOS. I won't use
an American airline for that trip either.

[luv u long time]

TSteve C, on 18 November 2011 - 10:12 PM, said:

I used Air Asia to go to and from Chiang Mai. The fare was great. They charge for picking your own seat,
checking a bag and any food or drink you have. I half expected they'd charge me for my seat belt. It was
OK for the 70 minute flight, but I wouldn't want to use them if they went from Atlanta to LOS. I won't use
an American airline for that trip either.

I think its a sign of the times with budget carriers. The air your breath will soon be additional costs due to the 'ever increasing costs for air purification and conditioning on aircrafts".

Here in the UK, on Easy Jet (one of the busiest budget carriers), they charge £20 for checking in a bag !!
A short 45 minute flight may only cost £20, but if you were checking in a bag, choosing your seat, priority boarding etc, you are looking at a £70 cost. Just mental !

As for Air Asia. Flown with them internally many times. Have found their service to flawless and punctual to the heartbeat. Need to watch the carry on luggage weight I believe.

What have you guys found these days....are they uber strict with the carry on luggage weight ?

[VistaView]

Just come back tonight from Ubon to Bkk. Flight was 20 minutes late but the plane was absolutely pristine modern (Airbus).

Cheap too - 1250 for one way plus 20 kilo bag which makes it about £30.

I did Air Berlin back here in September (peeps might want to check that out too via Dusseldorf) and that was packed sardine tight but only £309 one way and was cheaper than Air India!

[Robi_slo]

VistaView, on 19 November 2011 - 09:23 PM, said:

Just come back tonight from Ubon to Bkk. Flight was 20 minutes late but the plane was absolutely pristine modern (Airbus).

Cheap too - 1250 for one way plus 20 kilo bag which makes it about £30.

I did Air Berlin back here in September (peeps might want to check that out too via Dusseldorf) and that was packed sardine tight but only £309 one way and was cheaper than Air India!

Oh yes... Air Berlin (ex LTU)... sitting in sardine-can-like beaten old Airbus 330 with 2m+ Norvegian guy on my left and with Helga The Prison Guard as a service lady... I miss my first flight to Thailand.

I fly Air Asia many times but this time I got better deal from Bangkok Air to Chiang Mai. In the end Bangkok Air was 400 THB cheaper.

But then again... for 100 or 200 THB more I would fly Bangkok Air any time.

BR