Talking-bad time

Due to the bad investment I made recently (Read: Airasia flight), I am suddenly feeling the urge to earn money. Money out out out, no money in, me quite upset. Though technically, I am not working yet, but that feeling when the $ in your saving account keeps on reducing, no one likes it, urrrgh.

Airasia I hate you arrghghghgh. The price fluctuation goes like this: 999 -> 1099 -> 999 -> 849 -> 749 -> 849 -> 999 -> 1099 -> fluctuates between 999 & 1099 --> 1249 -> 1099 -> 999 regardless of how many seats left. The best price seems to be offered around 6pm to 10pm. I am so free to observe this trend right? Holiday, what to do. After observing for a month then I got nervous due to the fact that there weren't many seats left for the flight I wanted, so when it was 1249 I just thought I should buy it, who knows if it would go up again. Oh yeaaah. The next day it dropped to 1099 then today it is 999. It is the apps that I installed, keeps on showing me the best price of the day (自找气受之 apps). It makes me feel bad because for the price I paid, that price under today's condition, is entitled to get complimentary seat selection and baggage allowance. I got nothing loh. Hard to not be frustrated. If only I waited for 1 more day. Ooouh, investments need patience (lesson learnt).

Like what every body says, budget airlines, you either love them or hate them (This sentence should be filed as an idiom in the Modern World Dictionary, authored by the Internet). The only really good experience with budget airline I experienced is the Singaporean Scoot. I was late for check-in for a flight from Sydney to Singapore, late for a few minutes. I was running with my luggage as the check-in counter for Scoot was the farthest away from where I entered the departure hall. The mistake was totally on me, being late (Part of me wanted to blame the bus to the airport which stopped at e-v-e-r-y single bus stop and somehow at each station freaking a lot of people had to go down and go up the bus). But still I was very lucky. The counter was closed but there were still 1 or 2 staffs there, I basically ran there with my luggage and a very sad face. The guy said he couldn't check me in, but he could check whether he could move me to tomorrow's flight. He checked for only a few minutes and said, yeah, I have moved you to tomorrow's flight, please don't be late again. Woaaah. Thank you so very much, I will never be late ever again (for every other flight onward).

If this was Airasia, this would not be the outcome. I was very surprised, because I wasn't charged any money. Just, maybe I got lucky because Scoot was really new that time. They only started their operation for a few weeks. Since I missed the flight that day, I also missed my connecting flight (Read: Airasia flight) from Singapore to KL. Of course I could not do anything about that, if it is Airasia, you are better off buying a new ticket than attempting to change the flight date. Good news is, I managed to get $5 tax back (can get a cup of coffee, slurp).

Frustration needs to be vented heh, in this case it is not like I could blame anyone except myself. But still, due to the recent event in which Airasia canceled my sis's and cousin's flight due to 'commercial reasons', I am starting to have a bad feeling regarding this airline (My Korean friend, whenever she heard of Airasia, just shook her head and said, 'never again'.)

In the future, I really wish for more competitors in this industry.