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| < Asia (rec.travel.asia) ~ Buying very cheap air tickets in Asia |
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Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:26 pm
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:25 am
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<seeker9912@yahoo.com> wrote:
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The budget airlines have just began to take flight in Asia.
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"just begun to take flight"? They've been around for years.
miguel
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Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:26 pm
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Miguel Cruz wrote:
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seeker9912@yahoo.com> wrote:
The budget airlines have just began to take flight in Asia.
"just begun to take flight"? They've been around for years.
Prices have plunged in the last two years. You can fly Bangkok to
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Chiang Mai for $12 on Air Asia.
This is a really nice site. I live in SE Asia and have to fly every
six months for visa renewal. He missed China Airlines to the USA, but
had a bunch I didn't know about. |
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Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:26 pm
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"a" <alfred_molonREMOVE@yahoo.com> kirjoitti
viestissä:MPG.1dc7195ee4b6bc8f98ad90@news.supernews.com...
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In article <1129988034.005492.48480@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
frisbieinstein@yahoo.com says...
Miguel Cruz wrote:
seeker9912@yahoo.com> wrote:
The budget airlines have just began to take flight in Asia.
"just begun to take flight"? They've been around for years.
Prices have plunged in the last two years. You can fly Bangkok to
Chiang Mai for $12 on Air Asia.
I doubt $12 covers the cost of the airline for the flight. Most likely
it's a promotional fare only available for a few seats on each flight.
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Obviously. However, in Europe too planes are stuffed with zillions of people
who have bought these extraordinarily cheap tickets (there might be plenty
of more than just one or two of them onboard). Three weeks ago I bought a
return ticket from Tallinn to Berlin. For both directions the fare was 99
cents before taxes. The total was no more than 36.xx euros (includes a 6.5
euro "credit card fee", debit card users are exempted from this fee, just
couldn't make mine to work at the airline's web shop). A return ticket from
Berlin to Rome was merely 8 euros more expensive. The carrier is easyjet. |
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Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:26 pm
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In article <1129988034.005492.48480@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
frisbieinstein@yahoo.com says...
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Miguel Cruz wrote:
seeker9912@yahoo.com> wrote:
The budget airlines have just began to take flight in Asia.
"just begun to take flight"? They've been around for years.
Prices have plunged in the last two years. You can fly Bangkok to
Chiang Mai for $12 on Air Asia.
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I doubt $12 covers the cost of the airline for the flight. Most likely
it's a promotional fare only available for a few seats on each flight.
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - 6000 photos from Asia, Africa and Europe |
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Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:26 pm
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<frisbieinstein@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Miguel Cruz wrote:
seeker9912@yahoo.com> wrote:
The budget airlines have just began to take flight in Asia.
"just begun to take flight"? They've been around for years.
Prices have plunged in the last two years. You can fly Bangkok to
Chiang Mai for $12 on Air Asia.
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You could fly for about that two years ago, too. Or at least I could.
miguel
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Hit The Road! Photos from 38 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu
Latest photos: Burma; Hong Kong; Macau; Amsterdam; Grand Canyon; Amman |
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Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:26 am
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"Miguel Cruz" <mnc@admin.u.nu> kirjoitti
viestissä:JbqdnZbyBKiBpMDeRVn-ig@speakeasy.net...
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frisbieinstein@yahoo.com> wrote:
Miguel Cruz wrote:
seeker9912@yahoo.com> wrote:
The budget airlines have just began to take flight in Asia.
"just begun to take flight"? They've been around for years.
Prices have plunged in the last two years. You can fly Bangkok to
Chiang Mai for $12 on Air Asia.
You could fly for about that two years ago, too. Or at least I could.
Regardless of what is possible, a narrow sample of the AirAsia fares I
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compiled, shows that the medium fare is pretty close to $35-$40. It is a
bargain price anyways. "Taxes and fees" which is a fixed portion of the
total fare is 537 bahts and equals to about $13. |
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Tue Oct 25, 2005 8:26 pm
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Markku Grönroos <kurkku@hassuserveri.fi> wrote:
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Regardless of what is possible, a narrow sample of the AirAsia fares I
compiled, shows that the medium fare is pretty close to $35-$40. It is a
bargain price anyways. "Taxes and fees" which is a fixed portion of the
total fare is 537 bahts and equals to about $13.
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I fly from Bangkok to Chiang Mai fairly often (5 or 6 times so far this
year). Usually I find the Thai Airways walk-up fare is about $40, with
AirAsia, Nok Air, and Orient Thai (One2Go) in the $25 range. Depends on the
load though.
miguel
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Hit The Road! Photos from 38 countries on 5 continents: http://travel.u.nu
Latest photos: Burma; Hong Kong; Macau; Amsterdam; Grand Canyon; Amman |
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