Free Flight Tickets to Regional Destinations!

Great news for budget travellers!

AirAsia is giving away 1 million free tickets for regional destinations for travel from April 1, 2007 to Oct 27, 2007. Online booking starts today Jan 10, 2007 to Jan 19, 2007. Regional destinations includes Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Macau.

For people hoping to be able to book tickets for the recently announced super low fares of RM 9.99 for long-haul flights by AirAsia X, they might be in for a disappointment.

Last check with AirAsia website showed only its regional destinations. Currently, at posting time, all destinations are still green - meaning seats are still available. I've booked mine too! :D

Oh but of course there's a catch. You need to pay for airport taxes, fuel surcharges and administrative costs, which comes up to RM 40 for flights within Peninsular Malaysia.

For regional flights, the airport taxes varies, according to the countries' currencies. You need to check the site for a complete table of breakdown on the charges.

Another catch is that you need to be extra sure of your plans - you are definite that you will be catching the flight to the specified destination on the date you choose.

If your plan changes in the future, you would incur extra costs to change the name of the traveller or the flight date.

Anyway, I purchased a return ticket to Penang for less than the price of a one-way bus ticket from Singapore. Worth it! :D