The Kuala Lumpur Traveler

Tony Fernandes will not be happy to hear this news. From 1st Nov 2008 till 31st Aug 2009, Tiger Airways, a Singapore-based budget airline, will fly you between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur for only SGD29.00 one way…. that is really a super cheap airfare even by AirAsia standard.

Just to be very sure, I tried to book online at the Tiger Airways website (without completing the online booking), and for a Kuala Lumpur – Singapore return flight on 14th Nov 2008, returning on 16th November 2008 cost me only RM184.00 (tax free) excluding luggage allowance. You have to pay additional …read more

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Just like BN, it looks like AirAsia too never changed and had hardly learnt from its experience. This airline is synonymous with delay from the very beginning it assumed its operation. In one of my flight to Jakarta many moons back, Tony Fernandes who was making his rounds in the aircraft told everyone the delays were unavoidable as the were short of aircrafts. At that time he asked for some time to fix the problems where the new orders for aircrafts would be delivered.
Now, I don’t remember how many months since that conversations took place, but I am now sitting …read more

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The latest AirAsia compensation policy for delayed flights is really the proof of AirAsia’s leading position when it comes to travel products innovation. While Tony Fernandes deserved to be congratulated for this possibly 1st-in-the-world compensation policy for delayed flight, the manner it compensated its passengers is, to say the least, funny and does not make sense, at least from my point of view.
Why compensate using e-vouchers and then force the passengers to buy more products and services from AirAsia? Wouldn’t it be better to provide cash? For all you know, one would not want to fly AirAsia ever again after …read more

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Just one day after MAS’s Idris Jala announced Zero-fare Campaign where 1,000,000 seats are on offer at RM0.00 for domestic travel destinations, AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes announced that he will come up with a better offer. What is better than RM0.00? Well… you know it… anything less than RM0.00 is better and that is exactly what Tony is planning to come up with in the next few days…
AirAsia has countered Malaysia Airline’s Zero Fare campaign claiming that their cheapest air ticket still costs less than the national carrier’s latest product that was launched yesterday.
The budget carrier’s chief executive officer Datuk Tony …read more

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