When to Purchase Asian Flights

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  battler on 29/02/2016 - 12:17

  Direct is best but can be more expensive.
  You choose AirAsia (via KUL) or Scoot (SIN) to save money and/or to have a look at those 2 cities.
  MEL-HKT on Jetstar may be worth looking at, but you are in Adelaide, yes?

  Here's a good story about AirAsia: Have flown them 10's of times, prefer them to Scoot (fare prices are more-or-less same, but food addons are cheap with AA). Wouldn't hesitate to fly AA again.

  As for when to buy: during sales.
  Scoot Scoopon offer is still available: http://www.flyscoot.com/index.php/en/scoopon2016
  Else wait for an AirAsia 'Mega' sale
  Or a Jetstar sale.

  For July flights, bear in mind school holidays are 1-18 July, so fares won't be cheap during those dates, even on low cost carriers.

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  mariosensei on 29/02/2016 - 13:56

  There will be bad stories about every budget airlines. Which budget airline have you heard good stories about?
  Depending on which airline you buy, you may need to transit at their home country first and I always find that breaking up the flights is cheaper as flights are always cheaper from the 'home' country and buying through the local website, e.g. for Airasia, it's .com.my. Also remember to allow food and luggages on top of seat prices.
  I have recently taken 5 flights with AirAsia in the last 3 weeks and I have no complains. Only 1 delay was because of the local authority preventing flights from going into the country due to bad weather. 2 of my flights even arrived earlier than scheduled.

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  frondono on 29/02/2016 - 14:07

  I would probably fly direct.

  If you are going to the singapore route I'd probably get the cheapest flight, then get jetstar to price beat it and book the flight during a reasonable hour, as the corresponding flight has to be with in 24hrs of the one your price beating.

  http://www.jetstar.com/au/en/what-we-offer/our-guarantees/pr…

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    peterpeterpumpkin on 29/02/2016 - 15:43

    So sad that Syd-Sin isn't direct and can't be matched.

    I can confirm that the Scoot promo URL can be price matched for Melbourne. Just share the link to the agent: http://www.flyscoot.com/index.php/en/scoopon2016

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  [Deactivated] on 01/03/2016 - 21:58

  I fly a lot around South East Asia and almost exclusively fly AirAsia, it's my preferred airline in that region.

  Sure Singapore Airlines and other full servicr airlines are better but fly less frequently and more expensive for no benefit.

  Seat size wise, I'm 6'6" and fit comfortably.

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  brewersn on 06/03/2016 - 09:28

  Thanks for all your comments.

  I have been looking at prices and have noticed over the last 2 days fares have doubled in price particularly on scoot. From experience would any of you say this is normal and would you envisage fares going down again?

  Thanks.