Yahoo! Answers Blog Malaysia

Recent news hints that AirAsia X will most likely drop Japan off its list of flying routes next year due to the hassle Malaysians will face when trying to get a Japanese visa.

But to be truthful, how many of you really want to take a (approximately) 7 hours flight on a budget airline? Even though budget airlines are generally good idea, personally I don’t like to take them. Top 3 Reasons being:

1. Budget airlines are not really that “budget”.. if we add the airport tax, petrol tax, security tax etc, the taxes add up to be more than the cost of the flight ticket itself!
2. There is a limit on the amount of luggage you can carry, and food is not provided, but they’ll sell it to you at an astronomical price (You’re forbidden to bring your own. Ka-ching! $_$ ).
3. You have to fight for your own choice of seats at AirAsia AND the plane I took from Senai Airport to Kota Kinabalu Airport was so old that the toilet door banged open when the plane landed on the tarmac! What a scary landing.

The scary toilet door that banged open.

Would you take a budget airline?