Aviation « MageP’s Lab

AirAsia X to London

Talk about economic turmoil and aviation business in Malaysia is sprouting.

Now the latest, AirAsia X is going to fly to London at RM499 one-way fare for travel between March 11 and October 4, with 5 flights a week.

Online bookings begin 8pm tonight.

Let’s see how MAS is going to counter the campaign and as I said [...]

Air Fare War: Idris Jala vs Tony Fernandes

Be it Idris Jala or Tony Fernandes, let me tell you what, I just love free competition.

2 days ago, Malaysia Airlines (MAS) announced a global online sale starting with 3 days of booking period, starting from 10 till 12 Nov.

Tomorrow, AirAsia and AirAsia X are is going to remove all fuel surcharges, from midnight today [...]

Fair competition

I’m quite intrigued by the low-cost fight between the national carrier Malaysia Airlines and low-cost carrier AirAsia.

Half past midnight, two emails came into the mailbox about the same time, with AirAsia offering international free seats while MAS via it’s low-cost carrier subsidiary FireFly is busy counter-attacking AirAsia’s recent "sub-zero free seats" promotion.

It’s indeed the kind [...]

But why?
What has been happening is that Air Asia has been constantly canceling flights and putting their passengers on other flights. No real reason is given for these [...]