Air Asia’s “Now Everyone Can Fly!” vs Natural Disaster’s “Now Who Dare To Fly?”
“….Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Air Asia for its gracious offer of 500,000 free air tickets to public recently in Malaysia…” Wow! Too formal isn’t it? Let’s back to normal… Hooray! I managed to grab 6 return tickets to fly to Phuket this October, FREE, during the fest which ended 3 days ago! Not absolute actually. I still need to pay for the airport tax, insurance blah blah blah which eventually cost me RM972 or RM162 per person! Isn’t it great? Now everyone can fly, with Air Asia.
In fact I was trying to book free tickets online to Melbourne but only 1 way 2 tickets was still available and I need to pay for return ticket which would still cost me RM1,100 per pax. I know it’s still a steal of bargain but considering the flying time and other factors, I opted for phuket where we could fly with my family in a group of 6! Believe it or not, it is even cheaper than my last travel with Air Asia to Bali!
The point is: In view of the recent global economy crisis hitting most of the countries including here in Malaysia, huge numbers of retrenchment with more and more people became jobless, I really didn’t expect Mr Tony Fernandez could still offer 500,000 free seats to public! Isn’t it amazing? That’s why Air Asia has emerged as one of the largest low cost carrier in South East Asia or even Asia!
The Final line: Despite Air Asia’s slogan of “Now Everyone Can Fly” and huge saving for tickets to Beijing, Australia and London, in view of the recent natural disasters in those countries, do you still wanna fly to London after its recent snow attack? Do you still wanna fly to Beijing after its recent CCTV complex hotel fire accident? Do you still dare to fly to Australia after its recent forest wildfire incident that claimed nearly 200 lives? Should Air Asia’s slogan be revised as “Now Anyone Dare To Fly?” – Travel Feeder.
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Yes! Yes! I still want to fly. Didn’t grab any tickets though as my family didn’t give a clear signal where they want to go. So next time lo. There’s always plenty of FREE tickets or low fare on offer.
- February 18, 2009Wah!! so good ah!! I also want free air tickets!!! U really remind me to check out any good promotion rates from our budget airlines! 😀
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- February 20, 2009Nah, those kind of disasters can happen anywhere and don’t really relate to the airline company as such, so I wouldn’t have any problems flying with them.
I’ve heard of Air Asia before and was thinking of flying with them if and when we’re going to South East Asia. Have been planning for it twice but never got there, maybe third time will get us there? *giggles*
Not this year probably, have other plans in mind.
Air Asia sounds a lot like Ryanair for us. I love low budget airlines. For me, the price is very important and my first priority, to be able to travel as much as possible for as little money as possible.
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Not sure on how good a bargain these free flights are. They should stick to customer service and cheap flights. Im sure im not the only one who has had a problem with the service from airasia.
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