1,000,000 Free Seats

The advert says :

TIP TO GET FREE SEATS!! Don’t get frustrated if you can’t log in.

So what is all this fuss about you may ask? Last Thursday 10/1/2007 Air Asia announced its offer of 1,000,000 fee seats over its 70 routes across Asia. And this offer prompted many of us to try our luck at getting the free tickets. Some of us started going into the Air Asia website from the early hours of the day. By mid morning it was almost impossible to even log into the main page of the website. And when you did get through, almost every page you click would give you an ERROR message or it was displaying a SORRY message to the customers.

I guess I was lucky enough to finally manage in getting the free tickets. Any how did I do it? It was not easy. I must have tried logging in to the website for a few hundred times and not giving up when it displayed the ERROR pages or the SORRY message. All I did was to keep on clicking until I got what I wanted. And finally three hours after my first try, I got my tickets. Phewww…what an accomplishment and what a relief!!

Kiasu I maybe but I believe it was my determination that pushed me through. And I was happy to know that there were others who were as determined as I was. They too accomplished their mission successfully. Some were even very lucky to get free tickets to more than one destination.

Of course it is not all free. There are still some minimal charges to pay. And what are the rates like…RM350 to Bali for two persons, RM490 to Phuket for two. I didn’t bother checking the rates to the other destinations. But I guess they are equivalently as competitive. So…to me, it was worth going for the grab!!