Double check your dates? Flying to Sapporo Shin-Chitose, only Tuesdays, Thursday, Saturdays and Sundays got direct flights, while flying back to KL, only Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.  Just checked AirAsia December 2019 schedules.

But price, no promo (yet) ... last sale in May, the price was RM399 to, and RM430 return (without luggage & meal), for non-peak periods.

Could be seasonal demand. Singapore Airlines and I think Scoot do SIN-CTS direct flights only a few months a year for the winter ski season, but all other months tarak. Could be the same for AA too?

I am not in the airline industry so I don't have data available, but I suspect the demand is just not sufficient. Anecdotally speaking, I have a LOT of SG-based friends who fly to hokkaido for winter every single year. The number of ppl I know who fly there for flower season is far, far lower.

Can you advise about mid october in Hokkaido?
Is it good for sightseeing? i dont want hot and not too cold.... but this time mainly is to relax and eat around

AirAsia X will be temporary suspended flight to Hokkaido during Summer. Maybe as deodorant mention, during summer low demand. AirAsia X try focus all passenger to AirAsia X Thai to Sapporo during summer.

yup, no much people want go hokkaido during summer season, first is Nagoya, then Fukuoka, now is Hokkaido
because Malaysia economic bad? Malaysian have no money to travel? haha

The whole world prefer Thailand than Malaysia. Alot Western still thinking above Singapore are Thailand, direct skip Malaysia.
Malaysia alcohol tax just too high compare to Thailand.

Many foreigners don't even know Malaysia existed before the famous disappearance of MH and the 1MDB case...
I remember back during uni days in Melbourne, this French guy came up to me and asked where I was from.
Told him Malaysia and he never heard of it.
Told him we are just north of Singapore and he went "oh, I thought north of Singapore was Thailand?" 

not really, met a old local at tokyo, we do chat abit, he understand bout hijab stuff when we told him we from Malaysia.

once i went kobe makan Wagyu, the chef told us that he once has a school trip to Malaysia.

How did u managed to get tickets? I'm looking for opening ceremony tickets.

I've never been to tokyo before. Can u recommend me which area should i stay during olimpics which i no need to pay with my arms and legs? I dont mind the longer train travel.

Hi, anyone has any experience of taking out cash (JPY) from ATM machine in Tokyo (or any place in Japan)? just read that ATM there uses 4 digit pin instead of 6 digit pin. Is it true? Will bring enough cash, but just in case any emergency or etc.. and of cuz, which has the lowest fees? =)

u should! i only went for a day trip tho.  but from the map given seems there's plenty to do and jalan2 around.

Some night view from Shibuya Sky yesterday.





I felt like Japan New Year sales really no joke. Yesterday went to Skechers shop. 1st pair of shoe will be normal price but already reduce price like 2k yen less then the following pairs all 50% less. End up total 4 pairs for me & my sis. 10500 yen for 4 pairs of shoes.

Sigh..i go fukuoka..that is southern of Japan

Lots of full service airlines also the same lah. MAS also making it difficult to get refund, across causeway SIA only waiving change fees if you postpone flight to august or earlier, if you wanna cancel then no concessions at all.
Don’t know how on earth you reached that conclusion.

The ban is on (non Malaysian) visitors entering Malaysia.

Malaysians are only “advised” not to go to Hokkaido. They’re not banned from going.

not sure whether JP gov will ban Malaysian though. but TBH, I felt a lot safer in JP than in MY, including both airport, flight. last Saturday, KIX was so empty you could literally count the number of guests, zero queue at every airline counters, even AAX counter have no queue and majority of the counter are free. security and immigration also have zero queue. for flight, basically u can have the whole row to yourself, plus the luxury of one row empty, one row sleep flat, one row empty incase you are worried about the person on the front or back sneezing/coughing.

however, Osaka is still quite crowded and a couple of ppl coughing here and there, wouldn't recommend traveling around there Kyoto on the other hand is almost void of tourist.
nope, all sold out, including hand sanitizer. even when they restock, I wouldn't want to go line up for an hour+ with a few hundred ppls, much riskier TBH.