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[interestedinhanguk]

I forgot to mention I've been unable to use my US credit card for Air Asia recently (there's many complaints). Major pain.

[Yaya]

[Enigma]

Although I haven't flown Air Asia yet, here's a great site to see other passengers' reviews:

http://www.airlinequality.com/Forum/air_asia.htm

[jvalmer]

Flights between KL-BKK and KL-Singapore aren't too bad. Lots of passengers between those routes therefore low chance of flights being cancelled.

[MalFSU1]

[passport220]

[Dan_84]

OK, I finally booked with Air Asia. Here's what happened:

First of all, one of the promos (on the Kuala Lumpur --> Seoul portion of the round-trip flight) got canceled, thus bumping up the fare by about $30. But, the KL --> Phnom Penh portion got put on promo: from the equivalent of $62 to just $23! So, I guess it balances out.

The next thing I discovered is that the "add-on extras" for the Seoul <--> KL flights are more expensive than for the short flights-- possibly because they're with "Air Asia X," and possibly because they're longer flights. Also, they're in Korean won, so they may be using old currency exchange models. In any case, the medium baggage allowances for the short flights come to $10/flight, while for the longer flights, they're 22 000 Won per flight (bumped up to 36 000 Won for the next higher baggage allowance level)! Also, meals skyrocketed from a few dollars on the short flights to about 10 000 Won on the longer flights! So be aware that the fees do add up for the longer flights...

Finally, my credit card went through fine for the first two short flight transactions, but my card was declined for the long flight. I tried again, but it wouldn't try putting my card through again, as it detected a "duplicate transaction." Long-ish story short, my Canadian credit card company detected someone buying many airplane tickets from a non-Korean non-North American company, and so a hold was placed on my card. Answers to a few short security questions later and my card was re-activated.

So, lesson learned: before purchasing flights from Air Asia (especially mutliple flights), call your credit card company first!

The total cost came to about $580 for all flights and extras. Thank you everyone for your responses and helping me out!

[Dan_84]

And a very special thank you to passport220 for all his help and advice. He's the one who suggested I consider spending a few days in Kuala Lumpur while saving some money on my flights to Cambodia.

Thanks so much!

(I wanted to send this as a private message, but I don't have quite enough posts. I thought I would be over 25 by now, but I guess not... Maybe this one will put me over...).

[passport220]

[Dan_84]

Ooh, excellent. I declined to purchase a bus ticket into the city centre when I booked my flight (they give you that option), so these links will definitely come in handy. Muchas gracias!

...And I just checked again: I'm still under 25 posts. I really thought that I would be over by now...