In the near future you will be able to use AirAsia with their low cost tickets for those long-haul flight from Asia to US and Europe.

The Malaysian Government has given AirAsiaX rights to 36 destinations where more will be granted over time.

AirAsiaX is preparing to fly to Britain (probably Gatwick Airport) by July, follow by:

• Tanjian, China
• Hangzhou, China
• Melbourn, Australia
• Osaka, Japa
• Amritsar, India

According to this “Asia’s discount airlines reach for the West” Malaysia’s AirAsiaX, for example, will launch low-cost flights to London – a global hub – and also to the cities of Birmingham and Manchester.

And AirAsia by all means is not the first that is doing this

Oasis, a start-up airline in Hong Kong, has begun daily flights to London for as low as $147 one way and plans this year to offer similar deals to Oakland, Calif. and Chicago. Jetstar Airways, a subsidiary of Australia’s Qantas Airways, sells bargain tickets on routes between Australia and Southeast Asia.

Does this means you will be trapped on your seat for long hours without food, water or entertainment? Not necessarily.

Oasis offers free meals and in-flight entertainment, while Jetstar, which flies between Sydney and Honolulu, has blankets, food, and movies for sale.

So how can they keep fares so low? The secret, says Steve Miller, CEO of Oasis, lies in the efficient use of aircraft and crews, flexible pricing, and an attractive business class.

Advertised one-way fares from Hong Kong to London start at $147, but most flyers pay more (HOW MUCH MORE?), and business-class seats start at $920.

Nice to see all the competition in this area, next time you plan to travel to London from HK for example, perhaps the price will be even cheaper.

Airline links:

• Oasis Hong Kong Airline
• Jetstar

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Videos are the next big thing on Internet, specially with the spread of broadband connection and the recent buy out of YouTube by Google for $1.65 billion on October 9, 2006.

YouTube are full with popular tv series, short funny clips, music videos and generally whatever people put and uploaded there, but one area that can be greatly benefit from video is travel.

People always want to see first the places they are going to go, the destinations that they plan to visit and the hotels they are going to stay.

Enter Travelistic, dubbed itself as “Videos for Travelers”, Travelistic is basically YouTube but for Travel Videos only.

There you can upload your videos, gives comment, rating etc.

You can embedd the videos to your blog or your website ala YouTube.

Other than user uploads travel videos they are also hosts professional content and tourist board videos.

So the next time you travel somewhere, create a video of the place (the new digital camera now all came with video recording function), upload it to Travelistic and put it on your blog so you don’t have to carry the bandwidth.

Here are direct links to some travel videos about Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and China
Here are two embedded videos:

Bus & Taxi in Bangkok, Thailand

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According to Forbes’s Most Expensive Hotel Rooms In The World, Presidential Suite at the Intercontinental, Hong Kong at US$11,183 per night is the only hotel in Asia that make the cut.

At 7,000 square feet, the new Presidential Suite at the Intercontinental, Hong Kong is one of the the city’s largest. It has five bedrooms, a duplex living room with two-story windows, and a 2,500-square-foot wrap-around terrace with views of Victoria Harbour. There is also a private study, kitchenette and 24-hour room service from Alain Ducaisse’s Spoon restaurant–not available at any price to anyone else in the hotel.

For more info about the hotel check out the Intercontinental Hong Kong official site here: Intercontinental Hong Kong

Here are the rest of the hotels on Most Expensive Hotel Rooms in The World list:

• Cannes, France Penthouse Suite at The Hotel Martinez: $37,200
• Geneva Royal Penthouse Suite at President Wilson Hotel: $35,000
• Athens, Greece The Royal Villa at Grand Resort Lagonissi: $34,088
• Cost Smeralda, Italy Presidential Suite at Hotel Cala di Volpe: $27,277
• Paradise Island, Bahamas Bridge Suite at Atlantis: $25,000
• Crete, Greece Palace Suite at Elounda Beach Hotel and Resort: $21,030
• Paris Royal Suite at Plaza Athenée: $17,494
• Anguilla African Sapphire Villa at Altamer: $11,428
• Hong Kong : $11,183
• Dubai, United Arab Emirates Royal Suite at Burj Al Arab: $10,900

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There are four low-cost that has many flights all over Asia (Pan-Asian carriers) but mostly in South East Asia, there are:

• AirAsia (Country based: Malaysia)
• Jetstar Asia Airways (subsidiary of QANTAS (Country based: Singapore)
• Tiger Airways (subsidiary of Singapore Airlines (Country based: Singapore)
• Valuair (subsidiary of Jetstar Asia Airways (Country based: Singapore)

Besides the above, other low-cost budget cheap airlines in Asia, country-wise are:

» Low cost airlines in Hong Kong

Oasis Airways

» Low cost airlines in Indonesia

• Awair (subsidiary of AirAsia)
• Citilink (subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia)
• Lion Air
• Adam Air

» Low cost airlines in Thailand

• Nok Air (subsidiary of Thai Airways International)
• One-Two-GO (subsidiary of Orient Thai)
• Thai AirAsia (subsidiary of AirAsia)

» Low cost airlines in Japan

• Hokkaido International Airlines (also known as Air Do)
• Skymark Airlines
• Skynet Asia Airways
• StarFlyer (from March 2006)

» Low cost airlines in Macau

Viva Macau

» Low cost airlines in Philippines

• Air Philippines
• Asian Spirit
• Cebu Pacific
• South East Asian Airlines (SEAIR)

Info source is from Wikipedia: List of low-cost airlines

More info:

A good travel guide can help you in deciding about the travel lodge plans for your trip. If you are considering air travel, then you can search on the various cheap airlines. A thorough and effective search lets you make airline reservations that will help you in planning out everything on time. Depending upon the destination you select, you will need to survey the best budget hotels available. Your plans might as well include a travel bag that should be handy with the urgent travel necessities.

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Hong Kong is always known as shoppers paradise.

Here is a very descriptive article about where and when to shop in Hong Kong from CNN Travel: “A shopaholic’s dream day in Hong Kong”

Quotes:

With Hong Kong’s selection of markets and mega-malls, the question isn’t, “Where is the Prada?” It’s: “Where is the nearest Prada?”

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