I was just chatting with andrea over msn about air ticket prices, especially those for round trips to taipei. I think i’m more or less firm over taking jetstar, since the promotion for thai airways isnt that enticing. Thai is more expensive by less than 10 bucks but seriously i dun fancy a stopover in bangkok which would extend the total travel time to 7hrs 10 mins, instead of jetstar’s 4 hrs odd. I figured that i can live w/o food for 4 hrs, since you have to buy food in the plane and u can’t bring your own food. And she claims that the x-ray scanner can see the burgers that i’m trying to sneak on board, and mabbe the cabin crew would confiscate my burger and resell back to u for 8 bucks..

Of cos there are other ways of milking the budget passenger:

Ten Ways for budget airlines to milk their passengers:

1. The confiscate n sell your food back to you idea on top..
2. Use toilet: 50 cents. 1 pack of tissue: $1.00
3. All planes to be controlled by new pilots unless more than 50% of the passengers pay a $50 surcharge to upgrade pilot to a veteran one.
4. Seats would not recline unless you put a 50 cents coin, every 30 mins. Failure to do so would mean instant springing back of the seat.
5. Sell prime seats for a premium, ie. near toilet, or far away from escape doors
6. Stewardess will bug u every 5 mins to ask u buy food or kopi unless u tip her with $50
7. Baggage space above the seats are operated with EZlink cards *toot toot*
8. Calling for assistance costs $1 each time. This is different from the stewardess bugging u to buy kopi
9. Conduct tours of cockpit for kids at $50 each. Remember dun ask the parents, just ask the kids. Persuade the kid and the parent follows automatically
10. Sell immigration forms that are actually given out for free. Charge $5 for a form-filling service

:D