Malaysia to impose departure tax from Sept 1.

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Some years ago, I was based in KL, and operating out of KL airport was a dream, compared to the intense nightmare that JFK and Heathrow could be.

Taking a short break way using Air Asia, in the old cattle shed terminal was easy, if not glamorous.
Now, the whole thing has changed. When it takes as long to get out of the terminal as it took to fly there, it’s failed. When you find yourself corralled with a bunch of braying passengers with no concept of waiting their turn to get through passport control gates of which there are now too few manned (and to be pc, womanned), they’ve lost the plot. Shame, really.
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Took a flight from KLIA2 to Penang recently - huge queues at checkin and got redirected to the wrong queue twice and finally reached the bag drop to be told we were 10 mins late to checkin. Explaining that it was Air Asia's fault for not enough staff plus no announcement for the flight to go to the special counter ended up costing me $100 and 4 hours wait.

Flying back we docked at the furthest gate on one wing and the gate to Snooky was, surprise surprise, the 2nd to last gate on the other wing. Forty mins walk !!!!
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And Air Asia's web site is shit some times. Couldn't finish off my booking,,, then it says to refresh as there could be a price change,,, and they were right it had gone up.

And still a processing charge of $12 a person

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Freightdog wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 10:07 am Some years ago, I was based in KL, and operating out of KL airport was a dream, compared to the intense nightmare that JFK and Heathrow could be.

Taking a short break way using Air Asia, in the old cattle shed terminal was easy, if not glamorous.
Now, the whole thing has changed. When it takes as long to get out of the terminal as it took to fly there, it’s failed. When you find yourself corralled with a bunch of braying passengers with no concept of waiting their turn to get through passport control gates of which there are now too few manned (and to be pc, womanned), they’ve lost the plot. Shame, really.
There is a shortage of staff because they are being sacked all the time for various types of corruption.
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Duncan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:24 pm And Air Asia's web site is shit some times. Couldn't finish off my booking,,, then it says to refresh as there could be a price change
Did that to me too the other day, very frustrating.

I ended up booking a one day overstay to save money. I hope DOI lets let me back in.
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