Fly for less!

So I'm off to Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. 


It's another of those times when wasn't really paying attention at booking time. I do it all the time. I look at the flight times on offer and think "hmmm, I don't want to get up too early and have to be at the airport in the dead of night; but then again I don't want to waste a day of my holiday by arriving late in the day at my destination". So I scroll up and down and pick 7 am. I mean that's a decent time, I'm up pretty much around then for work, and I get to my destination around lunch time. Perfect! Pick it, book it, pay for it. Done!
Oh hang on a minute, it's an international flight. That means I need to be at the airport 2 hours before, and it takes 40 minutes to drive there, park and get the shuttle bus from the car park so that means I need to be up at... 4 am. 


Bugger. 


This time the horror is compounded because I'm flying with Air Asia for the first time. It's one of those discount airlines where it's cheap but you have to pay for luggage and food and drinks and timed boarding and good seats and seatbelts and wings and a qualified pilot.  Actually those last two only apply to Ryan Air apparently but I'm still a little concerned.  The last time I flew discount was with Jet Star (or Jet✭ which is much harder to type) and it was a bit like hell, it would have been fine if you were a limbless torso of some description but was a challenge if you had legs. 


I've heard mixed things about Air Asia, most people love them but a few people have had terrible delays or even arrived at the airport to find that their flight doesn't actually exist. I'm also a bit worried as I've been seen the state of the passengers at the airport when I've been waiting for flight in the past. I didn't know people could get that drunk so early in the morning. I've been assured by the girls at work that that was the Bali flights and I'm going to Malaysia so it'll be fine.


We'll have to wait and see. I'll let you know from the airport in the morning. I'm going to have a bit of time to kill while the sun comes up.