Thread: Air Asia Rant

Let me count the ways.

1) No seat allocation. Nok Air can manage it for almost exactly the same price, so I think there is little to do with cutting costs in this, and all about making you feel budget!

2) No queue preference for families with small children. Monks and old folks get a grudging nudge to the front but that's it.

3) Express boarding...pay for the priviledge of not being involved with the crush that is unprecedented on any other airline I've ever been on.

4) No outside food....fuck off, I'm not eating your overpriced tat...I make sure I take something to eat on board from home.

5) Legroom...I realise that I'm not going business class here, but I swear there's a good few inches less legroom than on any other budget airline I've ever been on.

6) Delays delays delays. Air Asia is the single most delayed Airline I have ever used. I have used them 5 times since november and each and every time their flights have been delayed by at least an hour, and last Friday 3 1/2 hours! For our misery we got a free cold Burger King hamburger.

I realise these flights are cheap, but there is a world of difference between the ocst cutting of Nok Air where you barely notice the difference between them and a regular airline, and Air Asia which screams..."We are cheap, and you will suffer!"

Too cheap sometimes. Sadly you get what you pay for. I heard too many horror stories and decided not to buy super cheap international Air Asia tickets last week. If I change my mind I can get close to the quote again. They were 189 Malay Dollars KL/BKK, then you add the taxes and surcharges and they were 1500 each way. They claim 80 plus percent on time factor.

Nah, I don't buy it...not on internal Thailand flights....not when you have Nok Air whose service is night and day from that found on Air Asia.

First of all seat allocation, not only do they have it but you can reserve your seats online.

Secondly, Nok Plus their faux business class. Seats at the front (albeit no better than economy) and you get a free snack...I challenge anyone to find a difference between this and Thai Airways internal flights (discounting the double price of course)

Thirdly, a far better record of punctuality in my experience.

Fourthly (and this is a definite plus if you're just going to BKK), they still use friendly old Don Muang, though slightly annoying if you're transferring out the country.

Fifthly, leg room...marginally more IMHO.

Incidently you can book nok air less than 24 hours before just as you can with Air Asia...

There's no comparing the two....
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I would also add that the saving with Air Asia compared to Nok came to 500 baht in Air Asia's favour for three of us.

I have to agree with their claim of being so cheap but afterall they really are not that cheap. As my mother-in-law flew with Nok Air from Bangkok to Phuket, her baggage was really overloaded by about 10 kg and she was charged 120 baht altogether, it should have been a lot more than that but the staff was very helpful.

When it was time to see her off in Surat with Air Asia, she was 6 kg overloaded and she was asked to pay 560 baht. Thier staff was not anywhere near helpful and din't want to compromise in any case. So yes they are low cost and low service.

air asia are shit.

anyone really still use them?

I love the train..give me lot of times to reflect on the past and dream, feel for the excitement of the future.

i love the train too dang, definitely. sometimes tho, you gotta fly...quite literally!

but i gave up with 'air delaysia'...(geddit kids? ) a long time ago.

Originally Posted by MisterStretch

...the only airlines in Thailand that flies from BKK to HDY.

eh?!

They probably use the same airplane flying back and forth between HDY and BKK, so if the first flight in the morning didn't go as scheduled then the just keeps on rolling down the hill.

ah i got ya...thanks for the clarification. i been a way a while!

One Two Go, NokAir and Thai do have BKK-HDY on their many scheduled routes, Air Asia is the one that fly in and out from the new, Suvanaphum Airport.