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Kuala Lumpur Return Ex Melbourne $303, Sydney $313, Perth $246, GC $303 with AIR ASIA @IWTF

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Kuala Lumpur Return Ex Melbourne $303, Sydney $313, Perth $246, GC $303 with AIR ASIA @IWTF
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Store RepIWantThatFlight on 04/01/2016 - 07:11 iwantthatflight.com.au (1902 clicks)
Last edited 04/01/2016 - 09:01

AirAsia are having a BIG sale, with lots of Asian destinations reduced. Travel Period is 1/May to 5/Feb. Plenty of seats available.

Click the links below to see all the flights. We have also provided some sample dates, click them and once the search has completed you can change the dates.

Perth to Kuala Lumpur Flights $246.
Dep. 04/Jun Ret. 18/Jun $246
Dep. 03/Aug Ret. 10/Aug $246
Dep. 10/Aug Ret. 17/Aug $246
Dep. 11/May Ret. 18/May $251
Dep. 01/Jun Ret. 08/Jun $251

Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur Flights $303.
Dep. 01/Jun Ret. 15/Jun $303
Dep. 11/May Ret. 18/May $308
Dep. 11/May Ret. 20/May $308
Dep. 11/May Ret. 01/Jun $308

Gold Coast to Kuala Lumpur Flights $303.
Dep. 04/May Ret. 11/May $303
Dep. 11/May Ret. 18/May $303
Dep. 18/May Ret. 25/May $303
Dep. 04/May Ret. 11/May $334

Sydney to Kuala Lumpur Flights $311.
Dep. 05/May Ret. 19/May $311
Dep. 11/May Ret. 18/May $311
Dep. 01/Jun Ret. 08/Jun $311
Dep. 03/Aug Ret. 10/Aug $311

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  • skazclaw on 04/01/2016 - 07:41
    +4

    I could do with a holiday…

  • RaGH on 04/01/2016 - 07:50

    Super tempting. If only they were to Japan for that price!

    • INFIDEL on 04/01/2016 - 09:46

      Too long a flight to Japan with stopover in KL. Jetstar had cheap direct flights a while back. Bought $249 return (from Cairns) during popular Cherry Blossom season.
      Happy travels.

      • RaGH on 04/01/2016 - 11:39

        That is what I'm hoping for. Heaps of flights to Honolulu and Bali but nothing to Japan. It's only a matter of time before they're on special again with Jetstar. I'd just like it sooner rather than later so I can organise the rest.

        I suppose I could see if there are cheap flights from KL to NRT and sandwich the trip but it's more work..

        • INFIDEL on 04/01/2016 - 12:08
          +1

          Don't forget Manilla with Cebu from Sydney - sometimes cheap flights onward to Japan.

          I regularly fly to Japan. $249 return is cheapest I've ever flown. Just have to get to Cairns from Brisbane.

          Christmas 2014 flight was cheapest with this site, on Jetstar - saved $200 off Jetstar return sale price. Set up a price alert with them based on your route & price.

          Jetstar has had cheap Japan flights in Boxing Day sales, but nothing special this year.

  • bozbargain on 04/01/2016 - 07:56

    OP, was waiting for this deal to pop up but need to travel in April. The fact that this for for flights from May, does that mean it's unlikely another big sale is going to happen to dates prior to this?

    • Store RepIWantThatFlight @ I Want That Flight on 04/01/2016 - 13:10
      +5

      My rule of thumb is wait hope for a sale till I am 3 months out from the flight. If I haven't found a sale by then, then I am unlikely to & the prices will most likely go up.

      • bozbargain on 06/01/2016 - 12:02

        Too bad for me, booked last night (for 8 April) at the normal 'low fare' rate with the usual '4 seats left' warning in red, this morning they had a 'promo' on for the same flight. Oh well, the fare dropped by only $31 so not the end of the world.

    • peterpeterpumpkin on 04/01/2016 - 17:38
      +2

      Prior to 2015 I would have said not to worry if you were departing very late April after school holidays (or leaving very early April before the school holidays and returning after their completion). This often required leaving on Scoot and returning on AirAsia but the two-month prior recurring specials were consistent year to year.

      Now that our dollar has dropped and budget airlines are well-known in Australia it's a lot harder to score amazing deals just by waiting for the next sale every 3 or so weeks. The last 2 years were the years of Cebu Pacific but even their specials are becoming rarer and less impressive.

      AirAsia might have another biggest ever sale in February or so but the flights may only be for later in the year. For now, Bali is one of the cheapest destination these days in Asia (from Sydney), due to sudden competition.

    • peterpeterpumpkin on 05/01/2016 - 00:24

      I just received an e-mail from Scoot regarding $50 off if you enter HELLO16, but it doesn't appear to be active. If it works you could get to Singapore in April for $169, which might be worth the $80 you save compared with going to Kuala Lumpur depending on where you're going.

      • bozbargain on 05/01/2016 - 08:16

        Cheers for that! Need to go through KL and don't like an extra stopover so I'll have to go with AA.

  • rawm on 04/01/2016 - 08:11
    +2

    Yeah nah still too soon. http://www.smh.com.au/world/airasia-disaster-pilots-disabled…

    My trust in Air Asia X is about as high as the number of +'s jv gets for his comments.

    • bohn on 04/01/2016 - 08:15
      +3

      yeah I think I will fly a 'premium' airline for awhile… whilst being a pilot may be 99% boredom, in that 1% that they need to do something I want them to know what the F to do.

      • Benjamin258 on 04/01/2016 - 09:49
        +4

        Being a pilot sounds like my love life… A few minutes of fun in between the hours and hours of mind numbing boredom.

      • watwatwat on 04/01/2016 - 20:43

        Your comment is really quite silly. AA is a big airline.

    • lolmao on 04/01/2016 - 08:57
      +7

      Indonesia AirAsia is a different airline to AirAsia X

      • rawm on 04/01/2016 - 10:52
        +1

        True, but looks like a pretty convoluted ownership structure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirAsia#AirAsia_X . Im sure there would be a lot of similarities with regards to policy, maintenance, procedure, pilots flying multiple routes as 'Air Asia' employees etc.

        From Wiki:

        AirAsia operates with the world's lowest unit cost of US$0.023 per available seat kilometres (ASK) and a passenger break-even load factor of 52%. It has hedged 100% of its fuel requirements for the next three years, achieves an aircraft turnaround time of 25 minutes, has a crew productivity level that is triple that of Malaysia Airlines, and achieves an average aircraft utilisation rate of 13 hours a day. In 2007 Joshua Kurlantzick of The New York Times described the airline as a "pioneer" of low-cost travel in Asia.

        When cost savings are so aggressively focussed on and ownership structure is overly complicated what could possibly go wrong?

        I'm not an airline snob by any means, but I have little confidence in carriers like this.

    • PaperplaneXXX on 04/01/2016 - 09:24

      I agree! that's insane to cut off power to two Control Systems onboard! I will try to avoid Air Asia too..

    • akastyl13 on 04/01/2016 - 09:47

      Why did I read this topic…Just booked tickets to Thailand in April with Air Asia…
      But my friend just came back (safe) from Vietnam with Air Asia X too !

      • Elision on 04/01/2016 - 12:43
        +2

        I've flown with air asia over 20 times and never had an issue. You're something like 4000 times more likely to die in a car accident than a plane crash, which for air asia is roughly 1 in 2,000,000

        I have this app that calculates your chance of crashing, you'd have to fly every single day for about 4,618 years before you crashed according to the statistics.

        • tonka on 04/01/2016 - 14:37

          Does the ap take into account the airline?

        • yomama on 04/01/2016 - 16:46
          +1

          Agree with the chances sentiment but the app meant that if you fly every single day for about 4,618 years you would crash once.
          It can happen on your first flight, last flight or anytime in between.
          Although once you crash very likely you can't take more flights to even out the statistics.

        • Elision on 04/01/2016 - 22:05

          @tonka:

          Yes. Airline, destination, departure, flight number and type of plane.

          I used Melbourne to Bangkok flying with airasia Malaysia on an A330 if I believe. I've used it with a few different routs with Airasia and it's fairly similar statistics.

        • tonka on 04/01/2016 - 23:25

          @Lunawinter: How does it compare to Virgin or Qantas.

          Does being incident free improve or reduce the likelihood?

        • Elision on 05/01/2016 - 00:09

          @tonka:
          Considering Qantas has never had a crash of course it would greatly reduce the likelyhood.

          Qantas is 1 in 5,267,256. You'd have to fly every day for 14,430 years. Although I don't even know how they came to that statistic, it could be based on other things against the airplane's control.. I dunno.

          Virgin is 1 in 4,887,255. 13,289 years

          Jetstar is 1 in 4,839,755. 13,259. Actually pretty impressive for a low budget airline.

          Personally I like using Jetstar the most for all round price/service/safety etc

          Risk of dying via car accident is 1 in 6,700 or something in the US, well according to what I found. Hard to find Aussie statistics, but when you think about it, 1 in 6,700 vs the roughly 1 in 1,800,000 chance of dying via air asia, it's a bit silly to worry about crashing.

        • Elision on 05/01/2016 - 00:14

          @yomama:

          I understand that, but the chances are still incredibly low when you take into account the amount of times it happens vs the amount of flights taken every day. I'm fairly sure it's just used as a tool for the viewer to see just how small the chance is, as saying 1 in 1.8 million is possibly not as effective.

        • blahman on 05/01/2016 - 01:49

          @Lunawinter:
          Shouldn't be that surprising with low budget airline like Jetstar. Low budget airlines are about foregoing comfort and luxuries. It is not about sticking you in planes that are more likely to fall out of the sky.

    • [Deactivated] on 04/01/2016 - 10:13
      +1

      As lolmao mentioned, Air Asia Indonesia is basically a cobranding exercise with Awair Indonesia and not a subsidiary. AirAsia X and Air Asia Malaysia are both different entities and companies.

      • 2stroksmokr on 04/01/2016 - 11:16

        I've been preaching this for years now, my last AirAsia flight from KL free fell. I was an avid flight traveller before hand, now I drive everywhere and this has scarred me for life!

        FU AirAsia.

        • Elision on 04/01/2016 - 12:53
          +1

          Free falling to the point where all the cabin crew were screaming for their lives? or a sudden random drop that felt horrible? I've had it feel like I was falling and it scared the absolute shit out of me, but it's more often than not just an "air pocket"

          If you truly went through a terrifying near crash or something then i'm sorry. I am actually fairly scared of flying and I just read up on what causes turbulence and what causes the dropping feeling etc to put my mind at ease.

          Also you put yourself at more risk driving then taking the plane, by a long shot. Even if it is scarier to imagine a plane crash.

        • blahman on 05/01/2016 - 01:53

          @Lunawinter:
          I think the sense of security from driving over flying stems from that if you crash in a car you're not almost guaranteed to be killed and that you are in the driver seat of the car and not being just a helpless passenger.

    • tonka on 04/01/2016 - 14:35

      Went through Kuala Lumpur with Air Asia last month for 4 flights and will never do so again.
      Service is incredibly bad, I could see they definitely have a culture problem, which usually flow across the whole company, techs as well.
      I'm pretty sure they have confused low service range with low service level.
      They couldn't get me on my plane when I was on time and charged me for a new flight which was the next day.
      I used some other budget carriers that were excellent though.

      • Elision on 05/01/2016 - 00:19

        That sucks :/ why weren't they able to get you on the plane? I assume by on time you mean that you checked in before the cut off and were at the gate ahead of time etc? I found that Kuala Lumpur airport was pretty badly organised, also somewhat complicated to navigate. Still didn't have any big issues though as we were proactive in asking for directions etc (our flights departure gate wasn't listed at all until like 5 minutes before we had to board? wat)

        • tonka on 05/01/2016 - 00:56

          Got to the check in area well before the deadline, it was that busy and understaffed I couldn't get checked in.
          Couldn't get the self check in to work when I finally found the one customer service person they couldn't help so told me to get in a queue and I would have to queue up, when I finally got to front, they refused to check me in as said I was too late.

          Next experience I made sure to web checkin and got to airport hour early, couldn't get the boarding pass to print, went to checkin desk , they say no they won't print boarding pass have to go to sales desk, Sales desk says no not unless I pay them extra. Looks like I am missing another flight, I go to the self checkin kiosk and start yelling,'need some help here' still no-one comes. I go back to checkin desk and demand the guy comes and helps me with the terminal. This one is a regional Malaysian airport that is not busy and staff just sitting behind counters ignoring customers.

          Back at Kuala Lumpur, I check in the night before and sleep in departure area, departure gate is listed about 1/2 hour before flight , it's a big airport you then have to get to the gate. If they operate like this why on the previous flight they wouldn't check me in 1/2 hour beforehand I don't know. About 10 minutes before boarding they change the gate, I'm sure there was no announcement.

          This is all stuff a lot of people can navigate if you know to expect it, which I didn't. I know a lot of people who could not sort through this, they are not mobile or internet savvy to access internet in multiple countries or simply not mobile enough to dash between gates, fight through the queues or paranoid enough about cheap carriers to keep checking the boards and details.

          Didn't work for me because I was not prepared for how badly Air Asia sucked in Kuala Lumpur, I couldn't web checkin because I was coming off an international flight with no internet.

        • Elision on 05/01/2016 - 01:23
          +1

          @tonka:

          Wow what a horrible experience. I don't blame you for it, I always get to the airport stupidly early but really you shouldn't have to. I've also been lucky enough to not have gone through the issues you went through. It's pretty terrible that they were unable to help you on so many occasions. I can understand why you would be hesitant to ever fly with them again.

        • tonka on 05/01/2016 - 02:16

          @Lunawinter: I think after you've been through it a few times it would be no big deal, but first time when Air Asia is very much self service and staff will not provide assistance it caused me some problems.
          When you're on holidays and you want that wonder of being in a new place this is not the way to go.

  • DrStinge on 04/01/2016 - 09:16

    What does "Return Ex" actually mean? No stopover?

    • Store RepIWantThatFlight @ I Want That Flight on 04/01/2016 - 09:20
      +4

      Return: Means that it is a return flight, rather than one way.
      Ex: A prefix meaning “out of,” “from", "departing"

      • DrStinge on 04/01/2016 - 09:27
        +1

        Thanks, the more you know!

  • MITM on 04/01/2016 - 09:43

    Here we go again. Another sale into SEA. I've only just gotten over the last round of Cebu Pacific deals. (Sigh)

  • Flyerone on 04/01/2016 - 09:58
    -4

    @IWantThatFlight

    Off topic slightly, but if I were looking at buying 5 seats Syd to Melb depart 4/2/16 returning 7/2/16, is it better to buy now or wait for a deal?

    • Store RepIWantThatFlight @ I Want That Flight on 04/01/2016 - 10:50
      +2

      Since the flights are only a month away, I'd buy now as there probably isn't much chance of a deal for that period coming up before you fly. Thats just my opinion though, as I do not have any inside info on AirAsia sales.

      • Flyerone on 04/01/2016 - 16:26

        Cheers.

  • bohn on 04/01/2016 - 10:01

    not sure if anyone has seen this.. I just came across it.. has a few interesting tidbits heh
    http://airasiaannus.blogspot.com.au/

  • atris17 on 04/01/2016 - 11:14
    +2

    Just warning, KL aint cheap anymore in term of goods and services.. Just got back, the price have already inflated, or currency aint doing too hot

    • nafe on 04/01/2016 - 11:31
      +3

      6% GST now applies in Malaysia which probably explains the price hikes.
      Current exchange is good though 1AUD = 3.1MYR - better than when I was there in March at 2.8MYR and no GST.

      • [Deactivated] on 04/01/2016 - 12:17
        +1

        GST replaced the crap sales and service tax of anywhere upto 10% that was added AFTER you decided to pay for something

        gst is a good thing there now everything displays the proper price

        • nafe on 04/01/2016 - 12:51

          Do the hotels still have a "Service" tax of 10% on top of the GST? I think Singapore is similar?

        • wildstone on 04/01/2016 - 14:33

          Wrong. They don't have a law there that says all prices displayed have to include gst. Some price includes gst and some don't which makes it super confusing. Only way to find out is when you pay or you need to go up and ask whether price includes gst everytime.

  • cheapm8 on 04/01/2016 - 13:55
    +3

    Buy one way flights. The return flight to Aus has cheaper fare and add on prices in MYR.

    • yomama on 04/01/2016 - 17:10
      +1

      This.
      Make sure to use cheap conversion credit cards to pay in MYR.

      To maximise this further, If you are going to say thailand, split it into 3 bookings. Aust>KL, KL>thailand>KL, KL>Aust.
      Most of the time i find this cheaper.
      However there is also a risk they will not help you if you got delayed flight to KL and miss the next flight on different booking.

      AirasiaX has been pretty good with me when this happened 2 years back, they refused refund (fair enough)but booked me on another flight (which i didn't take).

  • KN6 on 04/01/2016 - 14:10

    Has anyone successfully booked? For some reason when I select the flight from Syd to KL the price changes to $791

    • [Deactivated] on 04/01/2016 - 14:25

      you're probably picking the wrong thing

  • Peck on 04/01/2016 - 16:00
    +1

    Thanks for the tip. Jagged Syd to Bangkok (DMK) and back, $460 excludes checked bags and food. ALways Buy one way flights. Citibank CCard will give insurance for one way bookings, and through paypal to avoid booking fee. And then the return leg with my Citibank Plus to avoid exchange rate fees.

    • yomama on 04/01/2016 - 17:14

      Always wondered about this paypal thingy. The ccard statement would say payment to paypal and not to airline.
      Has anyone actually confirmed this? (i.e successfully made a claim)

      • Peck on 05/01/2016 - 17:28

        I haven't made a claim but my statement clearly shows that it was for AirAsia with booking reference. And also Citibank's call centre stated that it was ok (I know that is not much to go on though) For what I save on other travel insurance it is worth the risk for me.

      • bozbargain on 06/01/2016 - 13:47

        I once checked this with ANZ (or their cc insurer I should say), as long as money has been charged to your credit card, it doesn't matter if PayPal sits in the middle. Also, as per peck's comment, most cc statements now show the company name rather than just 'Paypal' as the payee.

  • PT8483 on 04/01/2016 - 20:31

    OP

    Looking to Fly out from BNE to Glasgow.
    Do you think BNE -> SIN -> Glasgow is cheapest route

  • gimli on 04/01/2016 - 20:56

    Any deals to Edinburgh?

    THanks

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