Budget Travel - Air Asia 2,000,000 free seats

Air Asia has 2,000,000 free seats on sale now:
Booking Period: 7 - 28 December 2005
Travel Period: 7 February - 10 October 2006
Available for online & mobile booking only.

Thanks for the heads up.

nice.....

edit: I did some poking and proding for an asia trip i'm doing (i hope to at least..) in may... found some stuff open MFM (macao)-BKK but that was it.. but I didn't check every date...

Nothing KUL-Penang;BKK;Siam Reap in the first 7 days of june, for example...

The availability is pretty hit-and-miss. More seats on midweek travel.

Pretty interesting promo/marketing decision.

I've flown Air Asia a number of times, and always enjoyed their service. The do have Draconian change policies, so I always recommend booking only one way trips, so that if you miss one flight the whole itin isn't dead.

There are some glitches in the system, though. I went through all the booking info for one of the free tickets, and after a long pause for credit card authorizing, it said the fare was no longer available, and only offered me a $40 plus fees ($56 total) for the one way flight.

However, I just checked my credit card, and see that they did authorize the 500 baht ($12.50) plus taxes/insurance for that flight. I went ahead and booked the free return flight ($15 fuel surcharge, plus taxes/fees $19.50 total), but won't try and rebook the outgoing for a day or so to see if it really got ticketed.

As I stated in the my previous post, after going to authorize the credit card, it came back and said that someone else had bought the ticket. Luckily, I used a credit card where I can see all charges made as soon as they go (Paypal), and could see that they had authorized two charges for each let.

This morning I got the emails that listed both "free" flights BKK-PNH. Cost was $15 and change for the BKK-PNH and $19.50 for the PNH-BKK portion. So I would be careful about rebooking if you get an error message.