Penerbangan "Air Asia"ke Sabah

Destinasi pengembaraan aku kali ini adalah ke Kota Kinabalu ibu negeri Sabah yang terkenal dengan gelaran negeri di bawah bayu....Dan kali ini aku ingin berkongsi pengalaman menaiki penerbangan tambang murah Air Asia dari LCCT Sepang ke LCCT Kota Kinabalu.

Pelbagai pakej yang ditawarkan oleh syarikat tersebut yang boleh dipilih oleh penumpang mengikut destinasi. Dan harga yg ditawarkan pun agak berpatutan(booking online lagi murah..) bertepatan dengan slogannya "NOW EVERYONE CAN FLY".
Seperti biasa apabila semua dah ready dengan tiket dan barang2 pun dah dimasukkan ke bagasi,semua penumpang akan menunggu di terminal pelepasan mengikut pintu yang telah ditetapkan...Para penumpang digalakkan masuk awal ke balai pelepasan bagi mengelakkan kekalutan di saat akhir!

Apabila tiba masa untuk naik pesawat,keutamaan akan diberikan terlebih dahulu kepada kanak2, golongan emas dan ibu yang mengandung menaiki pesawat.Kemudian barulah kita-kita yang di ketegorikan sebagai orang yang sihat tubuh badan pula naik.......Ini kerana perkhidmatan Syarikat penerbangan ini berbeza dengan Malaysia Airline(MAS) dimana tiada nombor kerusi pada tiket masing-masing jadi pandai-pandailah kau orang cari tempat duduk...Kalau lambat naik,memang kena duduk dekat tandas la atau pun tempat yg tak sempoi...!

Selain itu ,sepanjang penerbangan tiada makanan free disediakan seperti MAS...
Ada sedia makanan tetapi kena beli...
Souvenier pun ada jual di atas tu!
Tapi bagi yang suka travel, benda tu tak penting sangat janji sampai..............






Ketika mendarat.....

Bumi SABAH

JEEJOUN INFO

AirAsia Berhad (MYX: 5099) is a low-cost airline based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It operates scheduled domestic and international flights and is Asia's largest low fare, no frills airline. AirAsia pioneered low cost travelling in Asia^[1]. It is also the first airline in the region to implement fully ticketless travel and unassigned seats. However, as of 5 February 2009, AirAsia has finally implemented allocated seatings across all AirAsia flights, including in their sister airlines, Indonesia AirAsia and Thai AirAsia. Its main base is the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Its affliate airlines Thai AirAsia and Indonesia AirAsia fly from Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand and Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Indonesia, respectively.

History

An AirAsia Airbus A320 aircraft.

The airline was established in 1993 and started operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by a government-owned conglomerate DRB-Hicom. On December 2, 2001, the heavily-indebted airline was purchased by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes's company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit. Fernandes proceeded to engineer a remarkable turnaround, turning a profit in 2002 and launching new routes from its hub in Kuala Lumpur International Airport at breakneck speed, undercutting former monopoly operator Malaysia Airlines with promotional fares as low as RM1 (US $0.27).

In 2003, AirAsia opened a second hub at Senai Airport in Johor Bahru near Singapore and launched its first international flight to Bangkok. AirAsia has since started a Thai subsidiary, added Singapore itself to the destination list, and commenced flights to Indonesia. Flights to Macau started in June 2004, while flights to Mainland China (Xiamen) and the Philippines (Manila) started in April 2005. Flights to Vietnam and Cambodia followed later in 2005 and to Brunei and Myanmar in 2006, the latter by Thai AirAsia.

A new budget terminal, the first of its kind in Asia was opened in Kuala Lumpur International Airport on 23 March 2006. Built at a cost of RM108 million (US $29.2 million) and spanning some 35,000 square metres (116,000 square feet), the Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) is the new home for AirAsia Bhd. LCCT will initially handle 10 million passengers a year. AirAsia Group is expected to carry 18 million passengers in 2007.

AirAsia operates with the world’s lowest unit cost of US$0.023/ASK and a passenger break-even load factor of 52%. It has hedged 100% of its fuel requirements for the next three years, achieves an aircraft turnaround time of 25 minutes, has a crew productivity level that is triple that of Malaysia Airlines and achieves an average aircraft utilisation rate of 13 hours a day.^[2]

AirAsia is currently the main customer of the Airbus A320. The company has placed an order of 175 units of the same plane to service its routes and at least 50 of these A320 will be operational by 2013. The first unit of the plane arrived on 8 December, 2005.

On 27 March 2006, the Government of Malaysia announced that AirAsia will take over 96 non-trunk routes, in addition to 19 domestic trunk routes. This was part of Malaysia Airlines route rationalization programme which saw a large number of its domestic sectors being transferred to AirAsia from 1 August 2006.

On December 27, 2006, AirAsia's CEO Tony Fernandes unveiled a five-year plan to further enhance its presence in Asia.^[3] In the plan, AirAsia will strengthen and enhance its route network by connecting all the existing cities in the region and expanding further into Indochina, Indonesia, Southern China (Kun Ming, Xiamen, Shenzen) and India. The airline will focus on developing its hubs in Bangkok and Jakarta through its sister companies, Thai AirAsia and Indonesia AirAsia. Hence, with increase frequency and addition of new routes, AirAsia expects passenger volume to hit 18 million by end-2007.

On September 2007, AirAsia's Kuala Lumpur hub is fully operated with A320s while Thai AirAsia received its first Airbus A320 in October 2007. Indonesia AirAsia will receive its first Airbus by January 2008.

On April 5, 2007, AirAsia announced a three-year partnership with the British Formula One team AT&T Williams. The airline brand is displayed on the helmets of Nico Rosberg and Alexander Wurz, and on the bargeboards and nose of the cars. ^[4]

On September 27, 2008, has on its list 106 new routes to be added to its current list of 60 over the next few years.^[5]

On 12 November 2008 AirAsia abolished fuel surcharges . In doing so claimed to be the ' first airline in the world to abolish fuel surcharges'. ^[6]

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