1. How to find the Cheapest Flights with Air Asia Budget Sale
The budget carrier, Air Asia, has one of the strongest reputations among South East Asia’s
low cost airlines. This can be attributed to many factors including a reliable safety history,
convenient flight connections, extremely competitive fares and innovative marketing
strategies. A couple of times per year Air Asia will send out notifications on their Facebook
page and to their registered email accounts that are designed to build up suspense for their
highly anticipated BIG sales. Word of mouth then spreads amongst prospective travelers.
Often, these sales entail free flights with customers only paying the airport taxes (which vary
depending on the country and airport of origin). Each BIG sale typically begins at airasia.com
on a selected Monday morning at 12:00 am Kuala Lumpur time.
The dates of travel are often up to a year in advance, so proactive planning can definitely
increase your odds of traveling for pennies. Below are some surefire tips to help you book
the cheapest flights during Air Asia’s BIG Sales:
1. Create an account on airasia.com well before the sale date. Update the personal details
(name, address, passport number etc.) of all travelers that could accompany you on a future
trip.
2. Add your credit card details to their site in order to ensure that you don’t have to type such
details every time you decide to book a trip.
3. Make sure that you have requested for Air Asia to send you regular emails to receive
information about their upcoming promotions so that you can prepare to stay up the Sunday
night of the BIG Sale.
4. Request for your work calendar in advance and identify all of the available dates that you
may be able to travel within the upcoming 16 months.
5. Log into your account around 11:45 pm on the Sunday night of the sale and remain active
on their website.
6. If Air Asia has released the destinations and dates of travel for the sale in advance then
immediately search for trips that adhere to your travel calendar.
7. If the website is being overwhelmed with traffic (which is quite common during Air Asia’s
BIG Sales) be patient and try again in a few minutes. You can also try to access Air Asia’s
mobile app, which may have less internet traffic coming in.
8. If you do not feel like waiting in a cue on their site, don’t bother staying up until midnight on

2. Sunday night. Instead, set your alarm for around 5:00 am on Monday morning and wake up
to quickly book your desired trips. This helps to bypass the domestic website traffic in
Malaysia. Even though your sleep may be disrupted, you will be smiling when you book
multiple trips at rock bottom prices.
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