AirAsia X flying to London!!

This means that a return fare to London is just £198! This is perfect if you have just 15Kg of check-in baggage. However, if you have 30kg, and if they are charging RM100/kg, you are actually paying RM1500 for excess baggage + RM499 = RM1999!! This is just slightly cheaper than the other airlines I use to book for my children. Now, if I don't get the cheapest fare, it is actually more expensive! So, no cerebration leh..... HAHAHA.

Looking from the positive side, cheap fare is good if I have little check-in baggage. So, my children can hop on and come back for holiday more often or we can hop on and visit them more often (dreaming already). But still, going to a land where petrol cost £1 per litre, a BigMac meal cost £5-7, I need a fat pocket!

p/s: Excess baggage charge is the major killer. Do find out the cost b4 you book because it can be as high as RM200/kg. The check-in counter is more than motivated to charge you as much as possible because they get commission for all monies collected. I saw someone going to Perth and she paid four digits for excess. So cheap is no longer very cheap.

Extract from The Star newspaper

LONDON: It’s £99 or RM499 one-way – that’s the much-awaited opening fare of AirAsia X’s latest London Stansted-Kuala Lumpur route.

Malaysians flying to London will also pay RM499 for the return flight while travellers from London going to KLIA will pay £99 (RM541) for the return ticket.

Online bookings opened at 8pm Tuesday (Malaysian time) for the five-times-a-week direct flights which will begin in March.

Also on offer are premium seats at £549 or RM1,999. The initial bookings are for the travel period from March 11 till Oct 24 next year.

The AirAsia X flights will use Airbus A340 planes which will have 286 economy and 30 premium seats.