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bm7500 wrote:I booked a return flight to KL for just under $300 including baggage and other extra's etc.

I know they won't be the most comfortable flights but i have never been to Malaysia and for only $300 i thought, why not

bm7500 wrote:I booked a return flight to KL for just under $300 including baggage and other extra's etc.

I know they won't be the most comfortable flights but i have never been to Malaysia and for only $300 i thought, why not

Dazzeland wrote:

bm7500 wrote:I booked a return flight to KL for just under $300 including baggage and other extra's etc.

I know they won't be the most comfortable flights but i have never been to Malaysia and for only $300 i thought, why not

Let us know how it goes

Brucetiki wrote:I wonder if the planes they use for Adelaide-KL will have the kid-free section they've got on some of their planes? If so, I'd use them purely for that.

AirAsia X bus ads shock Adelaide and force withdrawal
Peter Needham

AirAsia X is known for its cheeky advertising campaigns but the latest one has gone too far. Too far for Adelaide and South Australia, anyway.

The ads emblazoned on the back of Adelaide buses crossed an unwritten boundary, venturing into territory that the South Australian Government considered beyond the pale. Yet there’s nothing raunchy or sexual about the ads.

The point is that the airline’s ads mention the unmentionable – daring to highlight the fact that flying from Adelaide to Kuala Lumpur is actually cheaper than flying from Adelaide to Kangaroo Island. Or at least, it will become so when AirAsia X begins services in October.

AirAsia X is the medium and long-haul operation of AirAsia. AirAsia has run cheeky campaigns before, like the one pictured at right, which pokes lighthearted fun at rival carrier Tiger in Tiger’s home market of Singapore. But the Adelaide campaign has really stirred the possum.



Opposition Leader Steven Marshall said the promotion would harm local tourism and that the ads should never have appeared.

“Taking a swipe at our great tourist attractions in South Australia is completely unacceptable when they’re advertising on the back of state assets, that is State Government buses,” he told the ABC.

“Our tourism operators are doing it tough at the moment. There’s no doubt about it. It’s a slow market.”

Marshall said it seemed “an incredible situation” when the SA state government was spending millions of dollars each year promoting its tourism attractions “only to then spoil it all by allowing other people to take a swipe at our great tourist attractions here in South Australia.”

As an afterthought, Marshall told the Australian: “If they want to have a go, why don’t they say it’s cheaper to fly to KL than it is to fly to Melbourne?”

SA Tourism Minister Leon Bignell said the Government spoke to the airline as soon as it learned of the advertisements and the airline had agreed to remove them. They were being taken down immediately, Bignell said.

AirAsia X will begin direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Adelaide from late October.

The fact that it will then become cheaper to fly to KL than to Kangaroo Island from Adelaide is astounding. But in AirAsia X’s case, it would seem that truth is no defence.

Global Travel Media

Ho Really wrote:

AirAsia X bus ads shock Adelaide and force withdrawal
Peter Needham

AirAsia X is known for its cheeky advertising campaigns but the latest one has gone too far. Too far for Adelaide and South Australia, anyway.

The ads emblazoned on the back of Adelaide buses crossed an unwritten boundary, venturing into territory that the South Australian Government considered beyond the pale. Yet there’s nothing raunchy or sexual about the ads.

The point is that the airline’s ads mention the unmentionable – daring to highlight the fact that flying from Adelaide to Kuala Lumpur is actually cheaper than flying from Adelaide to Kangaroo Island. Or at least, it will become so when AirAsia X begins services in October.

AirAsia X is the medium and long-haul operation of AirAsia. AirAsia has run cheeky campaigns before, like the one pictured at right, which pokes lighthearted fun at rival carrier Tiger in Tiger’s home market of Singapore. But the Adelaide campaign has really stirred the possum.



Opposition Leader Steven Marshall said the promotion would harm local tourism and that the ads should never have appeared.

“Taking a swipe at our great tourist attractions in South Australia is completely unacceptable when they’re advertising on the back of state assets, that is State Government buses,” he told the ABC.

“Our tourism operators are doing it tough at the moment. There’s no doubt about it. It’s a slow market.”

Marshall said it seemed “an incredible situation” when the SA state government was spending millions of dollars each year promoting its tourism attractions “only to then spoil it all by allowing other people to take a swipe at our great tourist attractions here in South Australia.”

As an afterthought, Marshall told the Australian: “If they want to have a go, why don’t they say it’s cheaper to fly to KL than it is to fly to Melbourne?”

SA Tourism Minister Leon Bignell said the Government spoke to the airline as soon as it learned of the advertisements and the airline had agreed to remove them. They were being taken down immediately, Bignell said.

AirAsia X will begin direct flights between Kuala Lumpur and Adelaide from late October.

The fact that it will then become cheaper to fly to KL than to Kangaroo Island from Adelaide is astounding. But in AirAsia X’s case, it would seem that truth is no defence.

Global Travel Media

Anyone got an image of the ads.

Cheers

Splashmo wrote:

muzzamo wrote:I reckon anyone going from Canberra to Dubai via Adelaide has rocks in their head.

Yes, transferring in Sydney is not nice, but the 10-across in economy Emirates 777 would have nothing on the Emirates A380 or Qantas A380 you get ex Sydney.

Last night I flew in from Sydney on Qantas and there were passengers continuing to Dubai, so it's not just Canberrans making use of the service.

And this is despite an Emirates flight leaving Sydney at 9pm in the evening - it must be full or people just book through Adelaide because it's cheaper?