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March 11, 2009 Air Asia X
begin Flights from Kuala Lumpur to London's Stansted Airport
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| John has booked to fly to London
in October 2009 with Air Asia X, the fare was an astonishing A$ 920.72.
The fare less than half of the nearest best fare with another airline. |
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Fare Breakdown
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Return Ticket A$682.42,
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Tax A$ 168.29, Baggage A$ 16.87,
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Food A$32.05 Seat select A$ 21.09
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| Total Return Ticket Price A$ 920.72. |
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| John will depart on Oct 8, 2009 and
return on Oct 19, 2009. AirAsia X will be operating Airbus long range A-340
aircraft on the London route. The aircraft has four engines and is the
world's longest range aircraft. |
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Airbus A-340
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| The aircraft has comfortable 2x4x2
seating, ideal for the 11 hour flight. |
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RECESSIONOMICS
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Jamal's Grand Nephew Erik
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| At the KHO we are always looking
at ways to save money, the latest one is to buy rice in bulk. The economics
are not stunning but we eventually do save some money and we have a whole
lot better quality of rice. We bought a 25 kg bag of Super Quality
Putri Sejati |
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| rice grown in Banyuwang, Java. |
| Normally kitchen boss Erik buys rice
by the kilo from the local shop, of course it is never 1 kilo, usually
800gm to help the shops profit. |
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| Eric always bought the cheapest quality
rice @ Rp 7,000/kilo (A$.92c). The 25 kg bag cost Rp 130,000 (A$ 17.10)
that works out at Rp 5,000/kg (A$.68c). A saving of Rp 2,000/kg (A$.24).
that would cost A$/kilo, we got 25 Kg for A$16.45 that works out at A$
6.6c/kg so by buying the bag we saved A$5.80. |
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| But then we had to buy a new 25 litre
green environmentally friendly plastic bucket to store the rice. and that
cost A$ 8.22, so we ended up minus A$ 2.42, as I said the economics are
not that great, but the kitchen will not fall into recession with two successive
months of negative growth, next month we should show a slight profit of
A$ 3.38, then the following month our efforts will be rewarded with
the full saving of A$ 5.80 per month. That's a whopping A$ 69.60 per year,
enough to buy another AirAsia ticket. |
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| Indonesian plastic is unique in that,
especially if left in the sun, it automatically bio-degrades into plastic
flaked in no time. |
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