Bargain Asia Flights

Bob_the_Saver

Air Asia have some amazing deals at present if you hit the right dates.
No admin fee and free seat just pay the taxes. Used them many times, the 'Ryanair type' airline of Asia. Also longhaul with Air Asia X (Inc from Stanstead)

https://www.airasia.com

Also see the latest deals from Tiger Airways in Asia/Australia. https://www.tigerairways.com
another airline I've used many times.

max11

Thanks! How do they work?
do they make periodical promotions (like Ryanair) or is more like easyjet?
I need to fly at christmas time and return 3 or 4 weeks later.

thanks

DaMaNiAc82

sshhhhhhhhh I haven't booked mine yet!!

Bob_the_Saver

Think a cross between Ryanair and Easyjet. We got flights from Bangalore to Singapore (4 hours) for about £5 all in with Tiger and on to Macau for about £2.50 all in, but these were exceptional and only available for a few hours. We also got Perth from KL return for about £130 and KL to Bali return for around £16 - all prices include all taxes and extras. Keep looking is the best tip. If you register with them for special offers you usually get 24 hours advance warning with Air Asia, Tiger's alerts don't always seem to be so early.

PS. Sorry DaMaNia82 - we've got ours!!!

Doshwaster

I can really recommend Air Asia. I have flown with them several times in SE Asia and they are just what a budget airline should be - cheap, cheerful and simple. And everything Ryanair isn't these days. Even when they don't do promotions, their prices are still excellent value.

Not sure I would fancy their non-stop service from STN to KUL though.

Bob_the_Saver

We've used Air Asia X from KL to Goldcoast 8 hours each way and it was excellent, not cramped, the food was good (you pay for it but not much if booked ahead). Well impressed.

max11

Thanks guys. It looks like I have to book 2 differents flights, from London to KL and then to Oz.
Is baggage transferred authomaticly and is there any garantee/assistance in case first flight is in late for example?

Bob_the_Saver

Not checked through, these are individual flights. If it is a chunky gap between them try the Tune hotel next to the KL low cost terminal.
The 'Ryanair' of hotels. We got a room for £1.

https://www.tunehotels.com

Doshwaster

Bob_the_Saver wrote: »

Not checked through, these are individual flights. If it is a chunky gap between them try the Tune hotel next to the KL low cost terminal.
The 'Ryanair' of hotels. We got a room for £1.

www.tunehotels.com

Good point. Air Asia use the Low Cost Terminal (LCCT - everything in KL is an abbreviation). This is several miles from the main airport and there's not much to do there. This almost caught me out when I was in Malaysia last year.

Air Asia do a good value bus service (http://www.skybus.com.my/) between LCCT and KL Sentral (not a spelling mistake) railway station.

Bob_the_Saver

Yes but don't forget if your arriving by Air Asia or Air Asia X you'll be going into the low cost terminal. Been there many times but what we're doing this time to add in a 24hour stopover between low-cost flights is booking 2 nights in the Tune hotel at the airport for about £2 all in (got it when they had a deal on) then leaving or stuff there and going into town for the day on the bus. Back out to the airport to stay the night, on the spot for the next flight then. At that price we booked 2 nights to avoid the 10am check-out as our flight's in the afternoon.

max11

Everything looks good!and cheap! too cheap maybe? I see that on time performance is 85%. So Should planes be on time? How much should I allow between two connecting flight in your opinion? (the option tiger asia is good as well!)

How is it Kuala Lumpur? Worth it a 1day visit?