Travel Time

Mr. Happy and I are booked on a 18:40 Air Asia flight to the capital of Brunei, Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB). We leave from the LCC Terminal NOT KLIA. This is a mistake many tourists make. We made it ourselves the first time we visited KL. People end up going to the wrong airport and missing their flight.The airport is really far away from the center of KL. City planners expected a higher rate of development and stuck the airport about 50KM away. The expansion never happened and we're now left with a long (and expensive) trip to the airport. I tried to map out our cheapest and quickest route. We left our apartment and took the LRT from KLCC to KL Sentral (RM $1.60). It was lucky we left from the mall, because Mr. Happy forgot to pack a tie and had to buy a new one.

Mr. Happy's new tie.

We then took an express bus from the train station to LCCT. Sky bus costs RM $9. Buses leave ALL the time. Chances are whenever you show up, there will be a bus about to leave. In addition to Sky bus there are other operators who try to undercut their business and sell tickets for RM $8. It took us 45 minutes to get to the airport, but there was no traffic. The travel time is supposed to be 1 hour 15 minutes.

Our flight left on time. I tried to catch some sleep, but Air Asia was making flight announcements all the time. They even tried playing games with the passengers. I thought this was pretty silly and didn't participate. But before I knew it, the flight attendant asked the winner to broadcast his name and where he was fromon the intercom. Who introduces himself but...Mr. Happy! He'd won! We weren't sitting together, so I didn't realize he was competing. Unfortunately, I was too stunned to snap a photo of the award ceremony. But I did get a pic of his prize.

An egg timer. A free flight would have been way cooler. Why does Air Asia even make egg timers? Oh well, we are winners!!!!!

(UPDATE: I tried the egg timer and IT DOES NOT WORK!!!! No wonder Air Asia wanted to get rid of them.)