Airasia special business class fares for taxes only on certain departures

[Alanslegal]

Timing can be of the essence here. If Air Asia X gets in fast enough and rescinds all the tickets, issues a public apology on their website for the mistake, puts the apology in out on print and social media, and advise relevant regulatory authorities, then they may get away with it with rescission of tickets.

I bet they are working out how many tickets are sold right now and see if its their "worthwhile" to keep those tickets valid and let those lucky passengers fly.

There is roughly 100 days of flights that the sale period was on for and if one flight per day depart SYD with 12 J seats, that's 1200 seats they have. If they sold less than 600 in total, I would be keeping those tickets and let them all travel. There will be good publicity in the short term and no complaints especially on social media, likely happy flyers once they complete their journey who will promote the 'good value' of their J fares to others leading to potential more customers in the medium & long term.

We'll see what happens. Fingers & toes crossed for everyone booked.

 

[Aussie_flyer]

They had an opportunity to cancel today. They haven't done so. People will now be making travel arrangements so canceling now will cause major headaches for them with the associated fall out

 

[moa999]

Re: Super Cheap Air Asia Premium Deal

My flight is in March so clock is definitely ticking

 

[GalaxyNexus]

Re: Super Cheap Air Asia Premium Deal

It was not only out of SYD, it was valid for PER, MEL, OOL, ADL. And it also worked for other AAX destinations e.g. China and Japan, for economy seats, and including the Easter high season. I estimated they would've lost at least a million dollars in this. We'll see how it plays out

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Re: Super Cheap Air Asia Premium Deal

There was no $0 premium fares ex Melbourne. Cheapest came to $700 return.

 

[Mrmaxwell]

Re: Super Cheap Air Asia Premium Deal

I was also lucky enough to score a return SYD-KUL in J for myself and my partner in May. Easter had already been booked on QF.

The deals to other hubs outside of KUL were not as good and seemed to be standard price or normal sale price, the error kicked in on the SYD/MEL/OOL/ADL-KUL direct flights only it seemed.

Looking forward to finally trying out D7 in the premium cabin no less - I love flying so new airline experiences are always welcome. They've taken my cash and sent me confirmed itinerary so it would be some bad publicity if they turned around now and cancelled everyone's tickets.

 

[LittleFokker]

Re: Super Cheap Air Asia Premium Deal

Well, it's almost 72 Hours since the itinerary confirmations were sent out and nary a squeak from AirAsia. I've used the "manage my booking" today to re-select seats and no problems. Quietly confident. Pak Nasser's Nasi Lemak, here I come...

EDIT

The thought just occurred to me that AirAsia does run occasional "Zero Fares! Only pay airport tax and fuel surcharges", which is exactly what this is (intentional or otherwise).

 

[GalaxyNexus]

Re: Super Cheap Air Asia Premium Deal

I don't think they have ever done it for Premium seats though... but yeah, as the clock's ticking it gets more definite I guess

 

[smit0847]

Re: Super Cheap Air Asia Premium Deal

There was no $0 premium fares ex Melbourne. Cheapest came to $700 return.

Correct - I believe the only $0 fares were SYD-KUL-SYD

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Re: Super Cheap Air Asia Premium Deal

They were available ex per and adl too. I didnt check ool.

 

[cleaver]

Checked in online two pax last night for our flights next week. All went smoothly and boarding passes issued both ways. Not seated together for one leg - hopefully the LCC ethos doesn't prevent them from fixing that up.

 

[LittleFokker]

Checked in online two pax last night for our flights next week. All went smoothly and boarding passes issued both ways. Not seated together for one leg - hopefully the LCC ethos doesn't prevent them from fixing that up.

Worth a try - my experience with that it was easier to have a word with the passenger onboard. I did a swap last month for a couple so that got me some Karma points. If you're on your own in the premium cabin then it doesn't really matter where you are seated (IMHO). Mind you it took a while to get the FA to understand what had happened when meals were being served later.

 

[GalaxyNexus]

Last time when I flew in premium cabin, they still check my boarding pass prior to the meal service

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Thanks for update. Looks like im good to go in a few weeks . Loving this

 

[Mondo]

Anyone had success on boarding under these fares yet? I am booked for mid April.....

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Anyone had success on boarding under these fares yet? I am booked for mid April.....

I don't think there will be any issues, the flights are booked and confirmed. There has been no attempt from AAX to get out of it. Nil reports of failure on ozbargain

 

[moa999]

Mondo, did you read cleaver's post above.

I have under 10 days to my flight.

 

[cleaver]

Thanks for update. Looks like im good to go in a few weeks . Loving this

Sitting at the LCCT on the way back to SYD.

Flew over yesterday, no problems at all. Flight was on time, priority check in, express pass and priority boarding. Staff were lovely and happy to keep the $5 50ml bottles of Grey Goose flowing. The seats are really quite comfortable - You do tend to slide down the seat a bit, but who cares when you paid less for the flights than the folk crammed in economy. Nice thick doona and pillow made for a good nap.

Nothing has been raised with me at any stage, so we are all sweet!

 

[joyvee]

Thanks for the feedback.
Underlines the importance of being ever vigilant and a big thank you to the person on Ozbargain who discovered and then publicised the info.
Glad you had a great trip..JoyV

 

[moa999]

Re: Super Cheap Air Asia Premium Deal

Also no problem last night. Unfortunately my PsO on my other ticket also cleared. At least good that I will get taxes back