Air Asia X Premium flatbed!

[ashleyn]

And getting a timely refund?

Refund came through quick enough, I think they'e had plenty of practice.

 

[MH_fan]

You guys are scaring me! I'm really hoping those upgrades come through...especially on the overnight flight back to Sydney!

 

[vitagen]

Refund came thru after a week? 5 hrs is the absolute max I will spend on air asia. I honestly wouldn't fly them again, nothing wrong with them as a LCC, just that for a few hunge more I can save myself and wife 10 hrs of pain each!

 

[fbrimfield]

You guys are scaring me! I'm really hoping those upgrades come through...especially on the overnight flight back to Sydney!

It's not so bad! People just like to whinge. A few sleeping tablets, and a stiff drink before bed time, and i've slept perfectly fine on two Air Asia overnight flights.

As for the flatbed, its okay, padding is a bit thin, but you get what you pay for and really, you aren't paying much. But there are still a lot of legacy carriers out there offering a worse hard product. I find the flatbed on D7's A330's to be not so different from MH's offerings on their 777's and A330's.

 

[clifford]

It's not so bad! People just like to whinge. A few sleeping tablets, and a stiff drink before bed time, and i've slept perfectly fine on two Air Asia overnight flights.

Of course, you should always pay for a reserved seat or you may be disappointed. My wife and I always go for 44 A/B or H/K where the configuration becomes 2-3-2, so giving you a bit more space.

If I'm travelling on my own, it becomes a bit more of a cough shoot as you can't pick your seatmate. Could be a larger or otherwise unpleasant person, which could ruin your flight experience.

 

[fbrimfield]

Of course, you should always pay for a reserved seat or you may be disappointed. My wife and I always go for 44 A/B or H/K where the configuration becomes 2-3-2, so giving you a bit more space.

If I'm travelling on my own, it becomes a bit more of a cough shoot as you can't pick your seatmate. Could be a larger or otherwise unpleasant person, which could ruin your flight experience.

That's what makes the Optiontown ESO (empty seat option) so good. I can't remember how much it is, but about $15 to reserve an empty seat next to you if the cabin isn't full, and if it is, then you get your money back. You can buy more than one I think too, so if you get on a fairly empty flight and you're in a row of 3 seats, and you've purchased two ESO's, then you've essentially bought yourself 3 seats (and a flat bed! - if you're short).

 

[clifford]

There is a cheaper, more practical way. Just sit in the last row (irrespective of where your actual assigned seat is) and observe what's happening during boarding. If there are spare seats available you will see them and can move into them as required.

 

[fbrimfield]

There is a cheaper, more practical way. Just sit in the last row (irrespective of where your actual assigned seat is) and observe what's happening during boarding. If there are spare seats available you will see them and can move into them as required.

Actually with ESO's now available, FA's are policing where people sit, and if people try to move into a row where there might be a few extra seats, they'll be asked to move back to their allocated seat since those empty ones may have been paid for through optiontown.

 

[frequent-traveller]

Thats cool,I now book the options via optiontown.com.
Use to be book the 2 seats either side of a row for U and partner,leaving the mid seat hopefully empty,but that doesnt work anymore.
As far as grabbing an empty row or 3 seats if they look empty pre takeoff,all the other Okkers will have the same idea,so its a battle.
Ill hope the optiontown system works.

 

[clifford]

Actually with ESO's now available, FA's are policing where people sit, and if people try to move into a row where there might be a few extra seats, they'll be asked to move back to their allocated seat since those empty ones may have been paid for through optiontown.

That's not my experience.

Flew KUL-SYD last week and it was a free for all, as it usually is.

 

[Cynicor]

That's not my experience.

Flew KUL-SYD last week and it was a free for all, as it usually is.

I find good and bad crews. On my SIN-KCH experience, one way was brilliant but on the other was a newish seeming young male FA who didn't/couldn't/wouldn't tell a pax in exit row to stow his bag, turn of his devices, put his seat up etc for both takeoff and landing. I try to avoid the LCCs but sometimes their timing and pricing just tempts me.

 

[smit0847]

There is a cheaper, more practical way. Just sit in the last row (irrespective of where your actual assigned seat is) and observe what's happening during boarding. If there are spare seats available you will see them and can move into them as required.

Why sit in the last row? Wouldn't it be better to try and wait at the gate so that you are the very last person to board and instead of finding your allocated seat you just plonk yourself down where you see 2-3 empty seats?

PS - this optiontown is a great idea - I would happily pay to have an empty seat next to me.