By the time you read this post we should be almost landing in Macau. (I’m using the timed post feature in Wordpress for this.) We’ll be flying on Tiger Airways, which is supposed to be the best budget carrier in Asia, with all new planes and Singapore ownership. After some experiences with European budget carriers I’m not so sure about flying budget, but let’s see if this carrier is any different.

One nice thing with this budget carrier is that you can pay a bit more and book the emergency exit seats. Since I’m pretty tall (1.9m+), I really value that extra leg room, even on a short flight from Singapore to Macau. On that subject, flight time is expected to be a bit over 4 hours, and we’re hoping the weather has cleared up as they just had a typhoon a few days back.

Now for any of you who are interested, here’s a breakdown of our flight costs, these are for 2 people:

• Fare Price: $79.98 SGD
• Tech fee: $3 SGD (just for booking online)
• Emergency Exit Seats: $50 SGD
• Insurance: $10 SGD
• Taxes: $134.50
• Total: $277.48 SGD

This works out to around: $185USD for both of us or around or $92.5 USD per person. Not too bad considering it includes pre-booked emergency exit seats. And as with most budget fares, the biggest chunk of the price goes to taxes.

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