Lbs890213

all airlines excess charge pattern are the same . is very high at the airport, nonetheless full service carrier or lcc

SuperKirby

Anyone know how much baggage fees would cost at the checkout counter?
When I book through a third party, say Priceline, they do not include adding baggage fees.

Our bags will be about 22 kg each.

paperwastage

can you book with flyscoot directly? for asia LCCs, i find that 3rd party OTAs charge additional booking fees that are waived on flyscoot itself

https://cdn.flyscoot.com/prod/docs/d..._chart_en.pdf?

If purchased after booking is ticketed
Fees as per above plus additional SGD 10

Purchase 20kg baggage at Check-in - various fees
(if no check-in baggage was pre-purchased)

Thai-Kiwi

Why would you book through at OTA for flights with LCC? Booking direct with the airline, in my experience, usually allows for better engagement with the airline (even if the experience is poor).

SuperKirby

Because it was about 30-40% cheaper. Anyways lesson learned! I cancelled through Priceline and booked directly with the carrier to avoid horrible baggage fees. thanks, all!

SuperKirby

When I tried to book with Scoot themselves it turned out to be about 30-40% more expensive than Priceline. Anyhoo, as I stated above I cancelled through Priceline. I did however found excellent prices through Air Asia (including baggage) and I booked with them instead (and yes directly with AirAsia).

Throughout the years of reading FT and blog I am still, and always a newb!
Thanks for the info and chart, that helped out.

paperwastage

which airports and date/range? interested to see why

SuperKirby

HKT-MEL one way January 17, 2019 =

$699 USD for 2 people on Priceline (no baggage) including after all fees
$936 USD Scoot (converted from 30614 thai baht, if I had the website perform their TB to USD conversion it would equal $992 USD) 2 people with 25KG baggage each and standard seats, after all fees
$659 USD 2 people with 25kg baggage each on AirAsia (however lands in AVV Melbourne, not MEL) after all fees.

If booked for 1 person total Scoot is slightly cheaper, not sure why it went up per person when selecting two travelers.

sbs2716g

Thai-Kiwi

Snap, was just looking at that.

Very oddly, priceline timings for exactly the same flights differ from on Scoot's own website, by up to 35 min for the final arrival time - that would raise alarm bells for me, and makes me wonder if PL's information is 'old' or how it is sourced:

PL website
Thursday, January 17arrives Friday, January 18
Phuket-Melbourne 20h 25m
Scoot Flight 659 Airbus A320 10:40a HKT, arr 1:35p SIN 1h 55m (layover in Singapore 10h 50m)
Scoot Flight 18 Boeing 787-8 12:25a SIN, arr 11:05a MEL 7h 40m


Scoot website
Thursday, January 17arrives Friday, January 18
Phuket-Melbourne 20h 55m
Scoot Flight 659 Airbus A320 10:45a HKT, arr 1:40p SIN 1h 55m (layover in Singapore 11h 00m)
Scoot Flight 18 Boeing 787-8 12:40a SIN, arr 11:40a MEL 8h 00m

SuperKirby

Oh trust me, I definitely chose the $317 option on Scoot's website. After going to final booking with credit card processing fees it comes out to much higher than priceline's (as seen in my post above). And as mentioned, you have to choose two travelers and not one and compare to two travelers with Priceline.

SuperKirby

I noticed that too and thought it was odd. Like you said, I think PL's info is "old".

It is also worth mentioning that about 1 week ago I found this same flight on Chase Ultimate Rewards Travel portal (The Chase sapphire Reserve uses priceline as their site whereas Chase Freedom uses Expedia FYI) for a significantly lower price (approx. $240) and when I had clicked on the checkout button, a pop-up error read "sorry, the flight you are wanting is no longer available". Same thing happened for about 2 days thereafter before it completely went away.