Rant & Raves

LCC stands for Low Cost Carrier, and let me tell you this… the KLIA LCC is really low cost. Let’s forget about the fact that it is located in the middle of nowhere (but its right next to KLIA) and you have to take one big round just to reach there, and I will get into why it is really a low cost terminal.

With the new LCC terminal, KLIA is like a ghost town now. I went there to pick up a colleague of mine and it was so quiet that I thought KLIA was closed or something. Anyway, AirAsia can actually bring up the crowd in the airport, and imagine a tourist arriving at KLIA and see that the so-called INTERNATIONAL airport is so deserted…. *shrugs*

First of all, there was not much road sign (miraculously, after my previous post, they had put up quite a number of road signs but it was still not clear. I wonder if they really saw my blog).

Secondly, there’s a Coffee Bean there and wonderfully, it is under-staffed so the tables were extremely messy and dirty, and no one will pick up those trash. You’ll be lucky to find a clean table and 99.9% of the time you will have to clean the table yourself. It is so low-cost until they cut the work-force to ensure they can keep it low-cost.

Then, the road in front of the terminal, just right in front of Departure Hall and Arriving Hall (which is only 10meters away), is damn narrow. You will be lucky if you don’t scratch your car if you are driving big luxury car (well, if you are driving a BMW, they don’t reckon that you’ll be taking low cost flight, do they?)

Furthermore, even the payment machines (remember the chip-coin thing?) located outside the terminal were clearly a second-hand unit. I reckon that they took those old unit from KLIA and used it there, just to cut the cost.

Did I mention that the damn parking itself has no roof? It has been raining lately and you will be lucky if you don’t spoil your cheap-hair-cut when you park your car outside. Of course, KLIA will think that if you are cheap (hence taking low cost airline), it is okay if you fall sick. Forget about the damn roof! You should get wet when it rains because you are taking a cheap flight!

Oh! The naming technique is really great. Low Cost Carrier. Damn, even the name sounds cheap. I would rather they name it Budget Terminal or Terminal YRCA (You R Cheap ASS). At least it is not so offensive…