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AirAsia Offers Two Mln Free Seats In Big Marketing Push

KUALA LUMPUR: -- AirAsia Bhd will give away two million airline seats in a "no holds barred" regional marketing campaign to mark its fourth anniversary beginning tomorrow.

The two million free seats are available for all domestic and regional flights departing from AirAsia's hubs in Kuala Lumpur, Senai, Bangkok and Jakarta.

The campaign will be launched simultaneously in the eight countries where the budget airline operates over 100 domestic and regional flights -- Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Macau, Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia.

"This is the first time AirAsia has launched a major regional marketing campaign of such magnitude and it will be the biggest online free seats campaign ever offered in Asia," its executive vice president (commercial), Kathleen Tan, said Tuesday.

AirAsia has so far carried 15 million passengers in the region.

To be eligible for the free seats, bookings must be completed online at www.airasia.com or via mobile.airasia.com between Dec 7 and Dec 28, 2005 for travel from Feb 7 2006 to Oct 10, 2006.

The free seat offer excludes airport taxes and fees, fuel surcharges, and is applicable for one way travel only.

Tan also disclosed that AirAsia's Internet bookings at www.airasia.com had increased by 65 percent in the last four years, making it one of the most successful distribution channels to date.

--Bernama.com.my 2005-12-06

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So I've been on the site, tried to book and the prices still showing up as normal. My gf says that this is just a marketing ploy and the seats are never available but I think shes being paranoid.

She did say she used to have trouble with this before when she worked at the airport and lots of these special offers were never available resulting in a lot of pissed off customers. I think I will bell them tomorrow.

Thoughts on this gentlemen, anyone booked over the net yet for this offer?

I know I should trust airasia more, especially with our prestigious PM involved in the company. :o

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So I've been on the site, tried to book and the prices still showing up as normal.  My gf says that this is just a marketing ploy and the seats are never available but I think shes being paranoid. 

She did say she used to have trouble with this before when she worked at the airport and lots of these special offers were never available resulting in a lot of pissed off customers.  I think I will bell them tomorrow.

Thoughts on this gentlemen, anyone booked over the net yet for this offer?

I know I should trust airasia more, especially with our prestigious PM involved in the company. :o

between Dec 7 and Dec 28, 2005 for travel from Feb 7 2006 to Oct 10, 2006.
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Nope, tried loads of different flights, they keep coming up with the price showing. Maybe the site not been programmed yet to follow the scheme and a call tomorrow be the best bet.

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bkkmadness, the offer is from tomorrow, December 7.

One sec George and Lopburi3, let me find the right smiley.

Ah, here it is :D

Bloody gf getting me paranoid, you'd think after 4 years I'd know not to listen to her. :o

Ok, see you back here at midnight! :D

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And don't forget

"The free seat offer excludes airport taxes and fees, fuel surcharges, and is applicable for one way travel only"

So you will have to pay for a one way ticket to get back which is about the same price as a return ticket.

OR get the bus back

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And don't forget

"The free seat offer excludes airport taxes and fees, fuel surcharges, and is applicable for one way travel only"

So you will have to pay for a one way ticket to get back which is about the same price as a return ticket.

OR get the bus back

I am too lazy to check but believe Air Asia and like discount airlines only sell one way. If you purchase a round trip it is two one way tickets and the fares are not discounted for being return travel.

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And don't forget

"The free seat offer excludes airport taxes and fees, fuel surcharges, and is applicable for one way travel only"

So you will have to pay for a one way ticket to get back which is about the same price as a return ticket.

OR get the bus back

I am too lazy to check but believe Air Asia and like discount airlines only sell one way. If you purchase a round trip it is two one way tickets and the fares are not discounted for being return travel.

whats to stop you purchasing two single free tickets ???

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I am too lazy to check but believe Air Asia and like discount airlines only sell one way.  If you purchase a round trip it is two one way tickets and the fares are not discounted for being return travel.

Sorry, I didn't know that

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Wow, how tightfisted can you get? If you need to make the trip or were planning on doing so, why the heck not? It is still cheaper than BUYING a ticket, you know!

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Well, since I am limited to either Bangkok air's regular price of 3500 baht per ticket (or hey, take a 6am or 10pm flight and only pay 2000) plus their 400 baht "departure tax' or a 4 hour trip to Surat Thani airport for a 1400 baht ticket with 12go Orient Thai or 2400 with Thai Air (and they only leave once a day) I'd be thrilled to get Air Asia, Nok Air or any of the other low cost airlines flying out of Surat (Samui, never). Free ticket, low cost ticket, hey I'm easy!

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2 million free seats? Some simple math....

2 million divided by 150 (capacity of Airasia 737) = 13333 full 737's

13333 full 737's divided by 365 (days in a year) = 36.52 full flights every day for one year.

I'd say it was impossible if it wasn't for this.........

The free seat offer excludes airport taxes and fees, fuel surcharges, and is applicable for one way travel only.

.... which seems to be at least 1000 B per flight.

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The OP stated that they`ve flown 15,000,000 passengers in 4 years=3.75million per year. But they`re only going to be free from 4 departure points. There will be no free return flights. It`s only outbound flights as far as I can make out. Even though they are flying to 8 countries.

I would imagine that as soon as all the seats have been allocated for the flights within the offer period the offer will simply close. It`s a good deal whichever way you look at it. But it sounds better than it actually is.

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Just got back from Singapore yesterday with AirAsia , 20min delay in taking off both outward and inbound but other than that all ok.

Anyway sat in my email box is this 2m free seat offer so i thought i/d book for next September time............you can book a round trip ticket no problem i got the quote 0baht outward and 0 baht return.........however the ins,surcharge etc come in at 1500baht for the round trip (still not a bad deal) only problem is when i try to move to the next screen and enter my details its coming up with the message "heavy traffic try later"............so up to now no luck.

Might try again late tonight.

For comparison i booked a couple of weeks ago for next March with them........2923baht return all in.

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Cracked it (after trying all day) got 2 return tickets to Singapore.

Outward 0baht, return 0 baht............ins etc. 3050 baht for 2 pax.

Saturday 23rd Sept 2006 return Tuesday 26th September.

:o

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Cracked  it  (after  trying  all  day)  got  2  return  tickets  to  Singapore.

Outward  0baht,  return  0  baht............ins  etc.  3050 baht  for  2  pax.

Saturday  23rd  Sept  2006  return  Tuesday  26th  September.

:D

So you actually booked some seats then? I've been trying to get into the deep pages but have had the ole 'heavy traffic' thing even very early in the morning and late at night. The price of the tickets I wanted were half what they are now the other day and I could never get to the 0 baht seats (3 months from now). I would have preferred to have paid that price than fart around having to keep coming into the site, but now they have strangely doubled in price. Marketting ploy to get people looking at the site with the free offer, give a couple of free seats away for those who persist and then increase prices?? :o hmmm

Well done thaiflyer :D

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So you actually booked some seats then?

Took me approx 10 attempts.............got through to the 0 fares a few times before getting knocked back (heavy traffic) and through to the enter details and passport numbers twice with same result.

Eventually got through 5pm last night.

I/m registered with Airasia and logged in first .............dont know if that helped me or not?

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So you actually booked some seats then?

Took me approx 10 attempts.............got through to the 0 fares a few times before getting knocked back (heavy traffic) and through to the enter details and passport numbers twice with same result.

Eventually got through 5pm last night.

I/m registered with Airasia and logged in first .............dont know if that helped me or not?

I got some free outbound seats in the end (after persisting :o ), although not on the original day I wanted, and the return flights weren't too bad. Kept getting errors on the page and sometimes had to do up to 10 refreshes. Probably took over and hour all in, where normally it takes about 10 minutes tops.

I'm also regsitered...just throw's up your details in the various fields as opposed to getting you liberties I think.

Cheers

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Well I have been on AA site and booked a visa run return trip to singapore, and a pair of one way tickets from Chinag Mai, on the $0 fare deal. So the return proposition above is not true.

However , i have just tried to book a return for two to Phuket at $0 deal and along with the other times had loads of broken links having to start again numerous times, and in the end when approving my card, it came up with 'Server busy your card is in a queue for approval you may get an itinary in your email soon'!!!!! or words to that effect.

So here am, I having effectively paid for these two tickets and six hours later don't have a clue whats going on.

And no I will not ring their customer service in Malayasia, who knows what the rate might be.

It seems to me the world wide (e.g.NTL in UK) technique of low cost operators of all kinds is to make the money from customers trying to find out where they stand, rather than delivering a good product cheaply.

Of course SE Asia is about a decade behind the west in dealing with these crooks.

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However , i have just tried to book a return for two to Phuket at $0 deal and along with the other times had loads of broken links having to start again numerous times, and in the end when approving my card, it came up with 'Server busy your card is in a queue for approval you may get an itinary in your email soon'!!!!! or words to that effect.

The booking should be OK, provided your credit card is OK. I had this once too. If you look up your booking on the website, it will say "unconfirmed" until the CC payment has been done, then it says "confirmed". You might not get an email though, so just have a look on the website twice a day or so.

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Well I have been on AA site and booked a visa run return trip to singapore, and a pair of one way tickets from Chinag Mai, on the $0 fare deal. So the return proposition above is not true.

Spacebass i can assure you i've got a pair of return tickets to Singapore on the 0 baht fare basis.............what i did have to do however was change my departure day from Bangkok as it seems to depend upon which day of the week you travel as to whether the 0 fare offer is available.

I wanted the tickets for the same reason as you (visa run) so i was fairly flexible within a few days.

:o

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Well I have been on AA site and booked a visa run return trip to singapore, and a pair of one way tickets from Chinag Mai, on the $0 fare deal. So the return proposition above is not true.

Spacebass i can assure you i've got a pair of return tickets to Singapore on the 0 baht fare basis.............what i did have to do however was change my departure day from Bangkok as it seems to depend upon which day of the week you travel as to whether the 0 fare offer is available.

I wanted the tickets for the same reason as you (visa run) so i was fairly flexible within a few days.

:o

Please reread my post, it says I bought a return ticket to Singapore on the $0 deal.

Forgive me if I am missing something but the pricing of virtually all travel tickets depends on time/date/notice, the cheaper they get the more it depends on what suits seller. e.g. A cheap day return on British Rail is not available at 8am on a Monday morning.

Cheers

space.

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Well I have been on AA site and booked a visa run return trip to singapore, and a pair of one way tickets from Chinag Mai, on the $0 fare deal. So the return proposition above is not true.

Sorry, i read it wrong.

Presumably the 2 one way tickets were for the CM-BKK-CM legs were they?............if so strange how you can't book a return ticket CM-BKK-CM.

:o

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Sawatdii khrap,

I was able to book a round trip ticket from BKK to KUL for 0 Bahts-taxes 1630 Bahts. Plus, book a round trip flight from KUL to DPS(Bali) for 0 bahts-taxes 143 Ringits. To get the 0 Bahts flights fly during the middle of the week (Tue, Wed, Thurs.) And to avoid the congestion on the web site, go on-line in the early hours of the morning.

Jambalaya:)

khunbigjohn

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So I've been on the site, tried to book and the prices still showing up as normal.  My gf says that this is just a marketing ploy and the seats are never available but I think shes being paranoid. 

She did say she used to have trouble with this before when she worked at the airport and lots of these special offers were never available resulting in a lot of pissed off customers.  I think I will bell them tomorrow.

Thoughts on this gentlemen, anyone booked over the net yet for this offer?

I know I should trust airasia more, especially with our prestigious PM involved in the company. :o

:D It says one way that is the catch.

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