Oh Wow, see how fast time flies? We’re in the first day of April now. Am getting panic while checking what I have done and achieve for the past 3 months of 2011. Many things still remain as a plan and not yet being realized. Sigh. Definitely not good. Some people might already get fit with the best creatine supplements and here I am with no achievement.

Anyway, speaking of dream comes true, I had a dream that a good friend of mine is looking for me and need my help. But before I can answer her, I woke up already. -__-” Aiyo, why la wake up, let me finish my dream first, can?

Then in the afternoon, she contacted me for chatting. This time, in real life. Wah… I can’t help not to connect it with my dream. So coincident, like a dream comes true.

It’s been a while since we last chat, so we shared quite a lot. And, I mentioned that if only there is an extremely cheap air ticket from Airasia, then I’ll be able to fly back hometown for weekend or so.

Guess what, in the evening Airasia announced that their Flyday promo (on every Friday) is buy 1 get 1 free, for Nov’11 to Feb’12 flight! Another dream (or rather prayer) comes true.

I waited no more and managed to grab return ticket from KL to my hometown for 2 person at RM130 only, for early November, 5 days. Woohoo! We didn’t purchase luggage/seat/insurance/meal. Travel lightly, as in budget. Cheaper than taking bus to Penang or other state here.

Hah, exciting now, although I know it’s still a long way to go til November. But whatever, I can imagine the foods, friends and family.

Here’s the map of Southeast Asia. I drew a red line connecting Medan and KL incase there is people interested in knowing the location.

I was checking Airasia site for the flight fare, from Medan to KL on April. After searching for several dates, I didn’t find any that is cheap enough although they have a new promo, Medan – KL starts from IDR.14.000 with booking date until today or tomorrow (I forget which one). I was about to rant when I click on a date and found it!

Yes, that is it. The IDR.14.000 (around USD1.20) flight fare (one way only). The total fee is IDR.84.000 after add in the administration fee. But wait, that is not the total fee yet.

There’s more:
1. Baggage fee
Add in IDR.15.000 for 15kg baggage. You won’t need this if you bring hand luggage.

2. Seating fee
Yes, now passengers can pick the seat instead of free seating. There goes the horror of rushing and squeezing in the crowd (in uncivilized way) just to get a seat. *sweat*

Add IDR.75.000 for the Hot seat, where you can select seats from the first 5 rows of the aircraft or 2 rows at the emergency exit. Otherwise, standard seat is just IDR.15.000. If I can’t get row #6, I’ll opt for Hot seat cause Hot seat included Xpress Boarding (again, there goes the horror of rushing to the plane with tonnes of people. *sweat*)

Back to the calculation, so IDR.84.000 + IDR.15.000 + IDR.75.000 = IDR.174.000 which is around USD15 only. Oh my.. This is the cheapest fare I ever found (for Medan-KL) during my 3 years traveling with Airasia! If I don’t buy it, I must be very stupid and regret the whole life. *dramatic mode on*

But.. the minus point is, the flight is at night. I certainly avoid night flight cause most of the night flights often delay one. I don’t wanna stay and wait at the airport (alone) until midnight or so. Besides, taking flight on Saturday night means I have wasted the weekend (for some reason that I myself will understand only).

Anyway, the summary of this post is that.. I found the cheapest fare for Medan-KL but I didn’t buy it. The end of the story.

*continue hunting for cheaper fare*