AirAsia: 2,000,000 free seats and the impact
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 | 3:02 pm @ SK
Thanks to the early Christmas greeting from AirAsia, now everyone can really fly.
Probably due to overwhelming response by almost everyone who love FREE things and not to crash the going-to-be-crashed server, AirAsia being "forced in a way" to switch from the 2mil free seats logo to the old ads to reduce desperate booking.
Also due to the serious internet congestion, I tried real hard before successfully got myself 2 FOC tickets. Same to its Call Centers (reservation/booking enquiries) too, average waiting time is around 5 mins.
Now you may ask, is this the way that AirAsia welcomes Idris Jala on board?
Also, who has the last laugh? You bet.
"We don’t want to go to Singapore right now. There are plenty of better places to go to. It’s got first to be completely transparent and it’s got to be open competition on all fronts."
Afterall, I guess it’s ok to piss off the duo.
December 7th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
2 million seats for around 1 month ?
if one plane can fit in 500 seats, that would take them 4000 times to finish the whole practice.
1 Jan to 24 Jan 2006 is the period of travelling for Chinese new year. Many people have already reserved a seat to go home, thus chances is that there could be leftover. Does this means that Air Asia had been booked to provide services of 4000 times for tat period ?
Since they are travelling, it might as well fill in all seats.
Can someone calculate the justification based on its financial performance from the mesdaq ?
As a marketing person, I would love to know the truth. very interesting campaign.
December 7th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
too late, it’s already published in the papers today.. that’s why so many ppl knew
lucky u. where are u going?
December 7th, 2005 at 5:11 pm
The furtherst destination of AirAsia from KL.
December 7th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
Macau?
[SK] Yeah.
December 8th, 2005 at 12:08 am
SK, i was happy tat u got 2 FOC tickets , of coz lah exclude the tax…i m happy d Air Asia ’s promotion. Jz like Ryan air n easyjet when i travel to Europe last year. Enjoy yah, SK…hmmm..where shall i go leh???
December 20th, 2005 at 8:49 am
Pls notify if there any promotion. As we will support you.
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