LCCT... Shaking legs and banging balls - Jeff Ooi

LCCT... Shaking legs and banging balls

Jeff Ooi wrote:

May 8, 2006 08:27 AM

Several of my friends, who took AirAsia for regional travels, have unsavoury remarks about LCCT (Low Cost Carrier Terminal) at Sepang, which beat Singapore to open on March 26.

They say LCCT stands for 'Low Class Commuters Terminal'. Really? I decided to give it a check. (I did forewarn I would relate to you that my air-travel from LCCT Sepang to Jakarta's Soerharto-Hatta airport took me five hours, not of the usual two. Yes?)

My flights were AK956 and AK957 over the Labour Day weekend. Return fare RM279.98, taxes RM133.00 in Malaysia and 100,000 rupiah (about RM50) in Jakarta. Total price: RM412.98 plus Rp100,000. Rounded up, say RM460.00 lah.

I checked-in 90 minutes ahead of flight time, only to be told that it has been retimed to two hours later. The check-in staff said the aircraft developed undercarriage problem in Jakarta and delayed the turn-around. (But in-flight, the pilot announced that KLIA was restricted to one runway for all take-offs and landings that morning, so delays snowballed. Which is which?)

So, what was I to do now, with three-and-half-hours to burn? It was a short trip, so I didn't carry my laptop. Even if I did, there was no WiFi.

Instead of banging balls, I wandered around the airport complex, which I missed looking at while rushing to check in awhile ago.