AirAsia Big Sale benchmark prices! Know if your fare is cheapest or not

I see that air asia is launching several big sales back to back. But I don’t find the current sale ticket fares exciting enough. Also Air Asia is hiding a useful information- not showing rates on adjacent dates. What this means is that now you’ve to try every possible date combination one by one. If you don’t you might miss out a much cheaper fare available a day or two adjacent to your planned date.

Above: Earlier booking screen where rates on adjacent dates could be easily seen, to select best date. Pic courtesy this site. For example, in above scenario, changing departure date to 6th Jan or 11th Jan instead of 8th Jan could save 40 MYR. It was very easy to identify.

Below: That feature is now hidden. So we've to manually try hundreds of combinations to identify best deal.

Update: Above feature seems to be restored now. I guess it is disabled only during sale, so that at least one way customers may buy slightly higher priced ticket.

Below are my Air Asia benchmark fare index- based on what I have seen over years. If you get a fare within 10-15% of these or lower, then consider it a great deal, go ahead and book, else wait for some other sale or try alternate dates to get better deals.

#	Origin-Destination (Round trip, NOT one way)	Best price I’ve seen (return)	Remark
1	Chennai- Bangkok	INR 7000 all inclusive
2	Chennai – Kuala Lumpur	INR 7000 all inclusive	Visa details
3	Chennai – Sydney or Melbourne	INR 23000 all inclusive	Anything under 30k round trip is great deal to these cities or Gold Coast. Keep in mind Visa cost of 8300 (Details), expensive stay etc. Getting right combination of cheap fare for both onward and return dates will be extremely tricky. Also check: Australia on Budget
4	Kochi-Perth	INR 19000 all inclusive	Perth is not the best destination in Australia
5	Chennai- Bali/Jakartha	INR 14000 all inclusive
6	Chennai- Bengaluru	Rs 990 all inclusive	This fare may not be possible anymore since DGCA mandated 15kg free checkin bag
7	Chennai-Phuket	Rs 9900 all inclusive	Bag not included
7	Chennai-Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)	Rs 10680	Bag not included
7	Chennai-Phnom Penh	Rs 11000	Bag not included
7	Chennai-Macau	Rs 17000 all inclusive	With 20kg bag
7	Chennai-Osaka (Japan)	Rs 20500 all inclusive	Without bag
7	Chennai-Honolulu (Hawaii, US)	Rs 38000 all inclusive	Without check-in bag

Keep in mind when I found above fares and traveled (few of them) they were sort of early days of Air Asia in India. We may never find such low fares anytime soon, as Air Asia is now well established. Idea of this post is to help you get an idea of what could be the best possible fare and how close the fare you see is to this all-time best fare.

Read this post to know how to make the most of Air Asia Big Sale. 2017 Long weekend calendar is here, to know what dates you can use with minimum leave.

Happy journey!

What is the lowest fare you've flown on Air Asia? which segment and when? Do share, so that others can have an idea.

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