I have countless experiences to travel on AA, routine Singapore-Penang flight and two third of my budget SEA trips. I experience the delays, date changes, flight cancelation but I still love AA cause it gives everyone a solid reason to fly! You get what you paid, so don't complain too much! At least, it saves me from taking 10hours bus journey from Singapore to Penang! It is seriously better than some other budget airlines! I've always been trying to book AA at the cheapest price and hence done quite a bit of research and experiments.
Here are few tricks and tips to save you from burning your pocket:
- Logon to airasia website daily! Subscribe the newsletter! Register an account!
Set the website as your homepage! Or at least logon to http://www.airasia.com/ daily for latest low fare promotion. Do subscribe their newsletter as they will send you latest promotion by email. Register an account to receive first hand information and sales, to enjoy member advance sales, to save the hassle of tying the credentials over and over again during promotion period that good deals may be gone in 2 minutes later. - Plan your trip earlier! Book it earlier!
Hottest free seats sales (just pay tax) are available for travel dates as far as 1 year later. Do plan your next destination and travel dates one year earlier. Check the calendar for public holiday to save your precious annual leave. Ah, dont forget to check the suitable season for your destination. The earlier you book the ticket, it is generally said to cheaper. Weekdays are always cheaper than weekends and long (public) holidays, if you are flexible, you get the best fare! - Get a faster internet broadband, login as member and use Firefox browser!
No doubt, while 8 of us were accessing AA website during free seats promo from different corner of red dot island, friend with faster network managed to check the price and booked the ticket while we kept refreshing the buzz...buzz...buzz bee... Autoinsertion of details expedite the booking process and Firefox browser claims to perform faster during free seats promotion time! Minimise the opening of browsers boost your website loading... - Try mobile.airasia.com on smartphones!
You aren't unfamiliar to mobile.airasia.com when bees appear on your webpage. Switch to alternative - the mobile apps has cleaner interface and makes the booking more stable and faster. - Be the early birds!
Logon to the website the first minute free seats promotion kicks off (usually starts at 0000hrs GMT +8), if you have a faster network, you can beat the crowd to book the cheap ticket. Be patient for the busy bees... Just refresh and keep refreshing the browser... - Just select the ticket, leave others later!
If you are unsure if you can make it for the trip, just book the ticket ONLY. Untick the check in luggage, in flight meals, insurance, seat selection etc. All these items can be added later (4hrs or few days in advance), if you need, with the same price. For faster booking, fill in the required field only -- name, nationality and date of birth! - Get an online banking account!
For booking to or from Malaysia destinations, you can save the convenience fee by registering a Maybank2u/publicbank/CIMB/Ambank/BankRakyat/RHB Bank/Hong Leong Bank online banking accounts! This will save you RM8/way/pax, RM16/2 ways/pax!! A family of 4 could save up to RM64 for return journey, big sum isn't it? - Logon to low fare finders!
Found few interesting apps created by other users to search AA low fares. Try this: airasiaplus.com. On top of it, this airasia price chart gives you an idea the price trends and flight demands. Be flexible and I'm sure you could get a good deal! - Compare to other airlines!
I'm currently relocation in Singapore so I always check jetstar.com and tigerairways.com to compare the price before making decision. There are still other SEA budget airlines such as Malaysia based fireflyz.com.my, Indonesia based lionair.co.id, Philiphine based cebupacificair.com. A great tool to compare air tickets among airlines: Skyscanner.net. - Check my blog for greatest AA deals!
Last but not least, check this blog! I don't update every single AA deals but only those can save you a bomb! So stay tune!!
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