Save Money Tips

Tips #1: Purchase Air Asia flight ticket via BIG program.
Air Asia, is probably the top choices for South-East-Asia travelers to purchase flight tickets.

Generally, there are 2 ways to purchase flight ticket in Air Asia's website:

• As Air Asia's member
• As non Air Asia's member

For instance,  Air Asia offers a loyalty program called Air Asia BIG, which allows customers to collect points (BIG points) from the flight purchase.
The accumulated BIG points can be used to redeem flight tickets.

Have you ever think about how to purchase flight ticket that cost lower than normal price ?

"For example, the normal ticket price of a flight cost RM199.00, but the ticket price will become RM128.00..."

Pay attention to the following instructions, you can get flight ticket from Air Asia that cost lower than normal price...


The flight ticket price shown is RM199.00

If you are Air Asia BIG member, login to the BIG loyalty program, then click "Redeem Points" and select redeem flight.

Select the flight and date that same as just now:

Noticed that the flight minimum points needed is 6500 points, don't worry if you do not have sufficient points, proceed to redeem the flight ticket:

After you have filled up personal details and reached payment page, you can decide how much points you want to use to redeem the flight, let say i have 2786 points and i used up all the points, then i just have to pay RM127.79 to get the flight ticket.

Compare RM199.00 with RM127.79, i can save RM72.21 by using this method, even though i do not have enough BIG points.

Hope this tips is useful to you.
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Tips #2: Selecting most cost effective luggage option.
Unlike other airlines, Air Asia's flight ticket price excludes baggage allowance. Therefore, additional expenses required by purchasing luggage add-on if you plan to bring along large bags for your flight.

How much does the Air Asia baggage fees ?

Below are the lists of baggage fees for Malaysia domestic flight:
1. 15kg = RM25.00
2. 20kg = RM30.00
3. 25kg = RM40.00
4. 30kg = RM60.00
4. 40kg = RM100.00

The price above not yet include 6% GST, so the baggage fees price included 6% GST:
1. 15kg = RM26.50 (RM1.76/kg)
2. 20kg = RM31.80 (RM1.59/kg)
3. 25kg = RM42.40 (RM1.69/kg)
4. 30kg = RM63.60 (RM2.12/kg)
4. 40kg = RM116.60 (RM2.91/kg)


So, the most cost effective baggage option is 20kg = RM31.80 (RM1.59/kg)


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Tips #3: Selecting the cheapest payment method
Purchasing flight ticket in Air Asia website, a processing fee will incurred upon the payment.
In general, there are 2 types of payment method:

• Direct debit (IBG)
• Credit/ debit card

For direct debit IBG payment, the processing fee is RM4.24, this fee applied for passengers up to 6 person.

For credit card payment, the processing fee is RM8.48 for each passenger, which means, if a flight booking has 3 passengers, the processing fee will be RM25.42 !

By the way, some credit cards has cash rebate benefit which the amount of cash rebate could able to cover the processing fee.

If your credit cards do not have cash rebate benefit, direct debit is the better payment option for making flight ticket purchase.

To refer the list of Air Asia processing fee, click on this link to the Air Asia website.