Please check the price Air Asia wants for the JB to KK route. It is 250% of that from KL. So why one would take the trouble to go thru border crossing on land from SIN and then fly from JB? The only time JB came into our planning was the Plan B that would include Malacca in the picture. Now Malacca is out and we are on Plan C.

JB is a much less served airport, hence the exuberant pricing. Though it seems still cheaper than flying from SIN as the price is in MYR, versus the flight from SIN is in SGD, but with very similar "absolute number" - that means flying from SIN with prices in SGD, it is 300% than flying from JB...

No wonder Singaporeans are willing to take the trouble to go to either JB or KL for their trips instead of flying out direct from SIN.

The ill-fated excursion to Malacca teaches one more time, that going with a logical route as dictates by geographic, does not always work. In fact, it does not work most of the time. One needs to go with the most served cities and routes instead.

(An example of that is, a friend and his family tried to go to Eastern Europe after their stop at Venice - geographic wise, it is very logical - yet, the means of this route to go there is VERY EXPENSIVE. Solution: Dirt cheap flight VCE to TXL, in the tune of $30 a person. Then rent a car again very cheap - drive to visit Eastern Europe for a week, return the car in MUC - total costs would be cheaper than they would have paid just to get from Venice to their first Eastern European city!)

Now with the mega typhoon passing that region, it would be a miracle that the area would fully recovered by the time we visit just before X'mas. Look at the path of the typhoon, a big part of Borneo is also seriously affected though the news are all concentrating in Philippines.