More competition means more cheap flights!

Firefly recently announced that they are starting to fly jet aircraft in order to carry passengers to more destinations. This will boost its carrying capacity and perhaps enables it to serve longer flight haul. Fleet expansion is part of their plans to serve the Eastern Malaysian. By Jan 2011, there will be three local airlines serving the KL-KK and KL-Kuching routes!

Firefly currently operates ATR 72-500 turbopropeller aircraft serving passengers to destinations in Indonesia, Thailands, Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia from their hubs in Penang and Subang SkyPark.

According to a news report, Firefly will acquire 30 Boeing 737-800 from 2011 and 2015 as part of their expansion exercise besides helping MAS to facilitate a better flight connectivity for the European market. The source said the new aircraft will fly from Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

This would put more stress on the ticket price and we should anticipate price war between its rival Air Asia. Firefly offers tickets starting from RM9. Log on to their website for more into http://www.fireflyz.com.my/

Don't miss offer and start planning for your vacation now!

image source:
blog.fireflyz.com.my

Holiday Chronicle team takes this as a blessing

Air Asia to get new stewardess!

Salam and hello peeps!

It has been a long and long time since we last updated this website. Sorry guys and you know it has been a hectic six months.

Have you heard of the latest news?

Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group will dress up as AirAsia stewardess and serve the passengers!

According to a source, both F1 team bosses Branson and Tony Fernandes made a bet that losing team will have the honour dressing up as a flight attendant. If Lotus Racing were to lose to Virgin Racing, Fernandes will have to dress as a stewardess and serve the Virgin Atlantic flight. We belief people are more excited to see Fernandes dressing up as stewardess =D

Isn't this exciting to have Richard Branson serving you while you are on a plane from Kuala Lumpur to London? If you think it is, then you should stay alert for their announcement on the flight details which is coming out very soon. Bad thing is, you have to bid for the seat (would you do that just to be served by Branson? Honestly I won't :D ) and the good thing is, they are not doing this for money. The proceeds of the bidding will go to any charity of Branson's choice.

Congratulations for both Lotus Racing and Virgin Racing as they managed to finish the F1 season. To Branson and Fernandes, we hope to see more exciting duel from you guys ;-)


Alrite, stay tuned for next entry!

Tourism & Places

Countries in the south east Asia (SEA) region are actively promoting their country to attract more tourist. They offer many kinds of holiday packages at many holiday destinations that is worth for the money and experience. For example, recently Singapore can be proud of its new Universal Studios and Malaysia has internationally admired Pulau Sipadan.

And many of these countries are well connected other region of the world as to Australia, New Zealand even some parts of China and India thanks to some of the worlds best international low budget airlines like Airasia, Firefly, Tiger Airways and Jetstar Airways. And flying is the best way to get around in SEA region as most countries are island country plus their land transport facilities are not like in the European countries where bus and train services are very reliable.

Malaysia has its own tourism offices in overseas. Here I give some of the overseas offices:

UK
Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board
57 Trafalgar Square London, London WC2N 5DU, United Kingdom
Phone: +442 079 307 932 Fax: +442 079 309 015
Email: mtpb.london@tourism.gov.my / info@tourism-malaysia.co.uk

France
Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board
Weissfrauenstrasse 12 - 16, D-60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Phone: 0049 69 460923420 Fax: 0049 69 460923499
Email: mtpb.frankfurt@tourism.gov.my / info@tourismmalaysia.de
Website: www.tourismmalaysia.de

India
Malaysia Tourism Promotion Board
4th Floor, Vijaya Towers, No. 4, Kodambakkam High Road, Chennai 600 034, India
Phone: +0091 44 4506 8080 / 8181 / 8282 Fax: +0091 44 4506 8383
Email: mtpb.chennai@tourism.gov.my
Website: www.malaysiajao.com

full list is here

For list of ASEAN Tourism Offices, click HERE

Decided where to go this coming summer? =)