Hafiz Roslan
21 hours ago
AirAsia's 11.11 promotion opened on 2 November and the booking window closes on 8 November 2026. The banner sells one-way fares from about RM5.50 across more than 130 destinations, and every year the same argument starts about whether that number is a fare or a rumour. My own pattern is predictable. I open the sale page on the first night, pick a KL to Penang or KL to Kuching date somewhere in the school holidays, and watch the price settle between RM80 and RM140 once the airport tax, the fuel surcharge and the picked seat put themselves back in. Same route, same fare class, same week as the advert, just not the date the banner was showing. So the question I actually want answered before I sit up on Friday night: has anyone booked anything this week that landed close to the advertised figure, and which route and travel month did it take? I am also curious whether the 2 to 8 November window means the sensible dates are already gone by the weekend, since the sale is a booking deadline and not a travel one. If the honest answer is RM5.50 to one route on a Tuesday in the off season, I would rather hear it now than after twenty minutes of date hunting.
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The cheap fare almost always sits on the first flight out or the last one back. If your plan needs a Friday evening departure, you are paying the normal price and the sale page will not say so until you have picked everything.
Check the bag before you get excited. By the time I added a 20kg checked bag the total came out higher than a full service ticket on the same route, and the gap was not small.
Set a price alert and stop refreshing the app. I got a better fare three weeks after the last campaign finished than anything it showed me while it was running.
Does anyone know which travel period this one covers? It is usually buried in the terms and applies to certain months only, which quietly rules out the Deepavali and Christmas dates people are actually shopping for.
For four of us the per person saving is real, so I am not knocking the campaign itself. It is the seat selection and the bags that undo it, especially when the system splits the group across separate rows.
Booked a return to Kuching on the first night and the outbound was the low fare while the return was ordinary. If you only read the first line of the price you will think you did better than you did.
Look at the airport tax line before you get excited. Some of the advertised fares are one way before taxes, and the return leg adds the passenger service charge all over again.