Welcome to Manchester!

Manchester, a city that related with football, the world most popular sport game, always been dreamed by most Manchester United Football Club fans. The ultra high flight ticket to there was too expensive, and previously only MAS(Malaysia Airline System) has granted to land at the destination.

RM9.99 is the lowest!
Yesterday, AirAsia announced that the one way ticket to Manchester, Britain, will be only RM9.99(exclude tax). AirAsia slogan changed from "Now Everybody Can Fly" to "Now Everybody Can Fly Extra-Long", and plans to buy 20 aircraft to service the various routes it had been given by the Government. The service will start on July 2007, but consumer can start booking their ticket through online start from next month.

Compare with MAS...
I "simulate" to book a ticket from MAS, and choose the lowest fair option. To make the ticket cheaper, I choose the date on next month, so it wont be rush. After the system generate the fare for the one way trip, the cheapest is RM2534.00, and it is just Economy Seat! Look like MAS will lose the Airline War, totally, if government keep giving routes to AirAsia. That's why MAS will make an economic lose in the previous years!

Why can this low-fare-incident happen?
In my opinion, MAS is extremely expensive because of it's good onboard services. They provide LCD TV behind every seats, games, music, and wider seats. But, that's only suitable for those rich bastard(my slang for rich people). Most people not really appreciate that kind of service, they just want to arrive their destination, and start what they had planned. For a short distance from Kuala Lumpur to Penang, I manage to book a ticket for RM0.99, after add up the tax, is approximately RM42.00, but if you take MAS, they will charge you more than RM200.00, that's 4 times expensive! Of course, MAS provide candy and light meal onboard, and AirAsia need to purchase it onboard, but even included the price of food on AirAsia's flight, it still much cheaper than MAS ticket.

AirAsia's plane
Maybe my experience is not enough to make a deep comparison between AirAsia and Malaysia Airline System, because I just fly once... But I believe that one-time-experience already enough to 'ketuk' (Malay slang that means scold or say something bad about it) MAS. AirAsia's plane is not wide, minus the departure and landing's acceleration and deceleration feeling, the rest is just feel like bus. If AirAsia want to fly to far destination like United Kingdom, I think they need a more comfortable seat for their passengers. 

From Windows Live Spaces to Blogger

I think for about 5 minutes before start this 'First' blog.
Since 2005 May, I had been writing blog using MSN Spaces. (Currently know as Windows Live Spaces) All my sweet and sour experience, and some techie stuff were recorded and blogged in the spaces. Her name is The Fifth Dimension, But now, I had made my mind to move my main blog site to Blogger....

Why?
I think most bloggers out there know the reason. Blogger looks more professional as a blogging tools, compared to Windows Live Spaces that looks more like a diary, or entertainment platform. Other than that, Windows Live Spaces cant let me easily track down the traffic of my blog(there is a way actually, but very troublesome). By using Alexa to track the traffic, Alexa just record down the whole Live Spaces User's traffic, and not my single site's traffic. The first time I saw the data: walao! my site so popular?!

Freedom to edit it.
In the 1 and half years of Live Spaces blogging experience, I always face difficult to edit some entry with HTML code. Due to security reason, some HTML and javascript cannot be use in the Spaces, I even can't host a video from YouTube in my blog. The HTML template was also irritating, can someone tell me, 900 characters enough for certain HTML code?

Financial Benefit
This is a factor that drew my attention. Previously when I using Live Spaces, I cant add advertisement, like Adsense, into my blog. The only service that Live Spaces provide is Kanoodle, quite irritating too, a lots of stupid questions and rules.

Is Live Spaces really sucks?
NO, although Live Spaces' function and controllability are limited, but 1 thing i like about Live Spaces is when I update my blog, it will automatic add a star beside my contact in Live Messenger, this will notify other contact to view my updates.

So how about the Live Spaces?
For now, I will keep working on both blogs, but I will put more effort on this blog, most of my exploration and story will put in this blog. A little bit disappointed, because my Live Spaces just approved by PayPerPost yesterday!


This blog will look a bit messy, I will rearrange it when I am free, currently is exam week. Bye!