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BATIK AIR MALAYSIA ADDS MALE / SEOUL IN 2Q23


Batik Air Malaysia this week filed additional new routes for Northern summer 2023 season, including service to Male and Seoul, while resuming service to Colombo.
 
Kuala Lumpur – Colombo – Male eff 12MAY23 1 daily 737 MAX 8 (Colombo last served until March 2020)
OD297 KUL1725 – 1825CMB1925 – 2030MLE 7M8 D
OD298 MLE2130 – 2335CMB0035+1 – 0655+1KUL 7M8 D
 
Kuala Lumpur – Seoul Incheon eff 23JUN23 1 daily 737 MAX 8
OD820 KUL2230 – 0600+1ICN 7M8 D
OD821 ICN0700 – 1250KUL 7M8 D

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I am still a little unclear as to what the Batik Air Malaysia product offerings are. With the majority of the 737Max in ex Lion Air LCC configuration, are they an LCC, hybrid or FSC? Their route network also seems to be mixed - with some sardine specials for foreign workers and some premium destinations. So what is their rebranded business model now, post pandemic?

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4 hours ago, flee said:

So what is their rebranded business model now, post pandemic?

Bringing migrant workers to premium destinations like Tokyo and Sydney as well as flying bogans to Bali 😬

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BATIK AIR MALAYSIA SCHEDULES HOKKAIDO SUMMER SERVICE JUNE – AUGUST 2023

Batik Air Malaysia during Northern summer 2023 season schedules limited-time service to Hokkaido, previously listed as winter seasonal flights. From 11JUN23 to 11AUG23, the airline will once again operates Kuala Lumpur – Taipei Taoyuan – Sapporo New Chitose route, 3 times weekly with 737 MAX 8.
 
OD888 KUL0720 – 1215TPE1315 – 1750CTS 7M8 357
OD889 CTS1915 – 2300TPE0005+1 – 0455+1KUL 7M8 357
 
During this period, the carrier’s Kuala Lumpur – Taipei Taoyuan sector will increase from 7 to 10 weekly.

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On 3/30/2023 at 5:51 AM, Zamir said:

BATIK AIR MALAYSIA SCHEDULES HOKKAIDO SUMMER SERVICE JUNE – AUGUST 2023

Batik Air Malaysia during Northern summer 2023 season schedules limited-time service to Hokkaido, previously listed as winter seasonal flights. From 11JUN23 to 11AUG23, the airline will once again operates Kuala Lumpur – Taipei Taoyuan – Sapporo New Chitose route, 3 times weekly with 737 MAX 8.
 
OD888 KUL0720 – 1215TPE1315 – 1750CTS 7M8 357
OD889 CTS1915 – 2300TPE0005+1 – 0455+1KUL 7M8 357
 
During this period, the carrier’s Kuala Lumpur – Taipei Taoyuan sector will increase from 7 to 10 weekly.

Meanwhile AirAsia X has dropped their regular Hokkaido services until end of the year for year-end peak.

Edited by JuliusWong

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10 hours ago, jani said:

Would be cool to see their group-wide network as well

Can't find any clear one, this was the best I could find in the Internet, dated September 2019. Source: https://www.nomadicnotes.com/lion-air-bandar-lampung-to-jakarta/

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EDIT: Found some images in Lion Air inflight magazine LionMag. February 2020 edition.

Lion Air Group International Route Map

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Lion Air Domestic Route Map

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Batik Air Malaysia has caught its competitors in deep slumber - they have already recommenced their services with a bang while AK and MH are looking like sleepy heads.

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19 hours ago, flee said:

Batik Air Malaysia has caught its competitors in deep slumber - they have already recommenced their services with a bang while AK and MH are looking like sleepy heads.

Batik surely has risen from the ashes much quicker compared to AK. MH is regressing with its deteriorating product and lost direction.

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4 hours ago, Pall said:

Batik surely has risen from the ashes much quicker compared to AK. MH is regressing with its deteriorating product and lost direction.

Batik Air is capitalising on AirAsia Group's both financial and PR woes to gain its foothold in the market. Strategy wise they use DPS and TPE as scissor hubs to fill up their seats to Australia and Japan. The local agents in Taiwan has been booking its Osaka and Nagoya flight. Taiwaneses love Japan. For Australian flight via DPS is an addition to their direct flight. Since Malaysia, Indonesian and Australian government have not make any noise, all is well now. GA and local Indonesian airlines have pulled back significantly from Australian market, leaving a lot of capacity to be filled. Batik Air saw this opportunity.

Batik Air also capitalise on KTM route since only MH is the only other Malaysia-based airline as competitor. AirAsia X cancelled its flight after getting into trouble with its previous ground handler leading to route cancellation. So much bad blood there. KTM, DAC and CGP are big earners for any airlines. High yield flight due to labour needs in Malaysia. They monopolise LHE too being the only home airline to fly there.

It is definitely easier to source B737 pilot compared to A330 pilots in Malaysia, AirAsia Group is having serious manpower issue, more than what MH and OD are experiencing (although same can be said for MH for its stunted growth due to lack of aircraft and manpower). Definitely easier and faster to get a B737 up and running and staff them in short notice compared to A330s. Let's not forget Capital A is embroiled in many lawsuits by its lessors.

There are also a lot of traffic rights that are not utilised by any airline, Batik Air jumped on this.

MH wise it is a different animal altogether. Flight are full to the brim and costly now. Should be able to turn cash positive consistently soon. 

Edited by JuliusWong

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On 4/4/2023 at 8:03 PM, flee said:

Batik Air Malaysia has caught its competitors in deep slumber - they have already recommenced their services with a bang while AK and MH are looking like sleepy heads.

Another thing I noticed is they seem to have largely abandoned the 'dog eat dog' Peninsular-EM market to a bare skeleton, leaving the likes of MH, AK and Z9 to fight over the remaining scraps 😁

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Waiting to see when will then start a widebody ops from KUL. Somebody mentioned in here that they have secured right to IST.

Lionair is seen pretty much as de facto Indonesian carrier.

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36 minutes ago, Riza said:

Waiting to see when will then start a widebody ops from KUL. Somebody mentioned in here that they have secured right to IST.

Lionair is seen pretty much as de facto Indonesian carrier.

Yes, based on the last available data by the Indonesia National Air Carriers Association (INACA) for year 2021, Lion Air Group has 60% of Indonesia's domestic market share, almost twice the share of flag carrier Garuda Indonesia.

  1. Lion Air - 9.89 million - 30%
  2. Batik Air -7.26 million - 22%
  3. Wings Air - 2.62 million - 8%
  4. Garuda - 3.49 million - 10%
  5. Citilink - 7.52 million - 23%

The remaining shares (7%) were distributed among the other airlines such as Sriwijaya Air (1.11 million passengers), Indonesia AirAsia (637,450), Nam Air (292,410), Trigana (120,730), and Susi Air (9,460). Airlines not a member of INACA transported a total of 398,480 passengers.

BUT for international flights,

Garuda controlled 58% of the market share for international flights or around 106,800 passengers; followed by Indonesia Air Asia with 69,890 passengers (38%), Lion Air (7,370 passengers, 4%), and Citilink (778 passengers, 0.4%).

In domestic front, GA has retired its GA Explore brand, thus retiring its ATR 72 and CRJ-1000 fleet, this causes significant shrink in domestic operation, especially in second and third tier cities. Citilink brand also did not grow in terms of fleet, but they mounted more flights thru increasing fleet usage. Lion Air Group wise expanded massively with its new brand Super Air Jet, now having 50 A320s in just two years. Lion Air took in additional B738s and B739s, after lessors took away some of their initial B737NG fleet. They also consolidate all A330s operation in Lion Air Indonesia now. 

Whenever I travel to Indonesia or within Indonesia, my local friends will tell me not to take Lion Air or any of its subsidiary, no matter how cheap the airfare is. Take GA instead. LOL!

Edited by JuliusWong

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1 hour ago, JuliusWong said:

Whenever I travel to Indonesia or within Indonesia, my local friends will tell me not to take Lion Air or any of its subsidiary, no matter how cheap the airfare is. Take GA instead. LOL!

Its the same everywhere dont take ryanair, dont take easyjet, don't take frontier/allegiant, dont take airasia etc. But people would still stupidly flock to them in doves cause its cheap majority of the time. As this goes on the market forces is gradually pulling towards that segment no matter how we dislike it. 

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14 minutes ago, jahur said:

Its the same everywhere dont take ryanair, dont take easyjet, don't take frontier/allegiant, dont take airasia etc. But people would still stupidly flock to them in doves cause its cheap majority of the time. As this goes on the market forces is gradually pulling towards that segment no matter how we dislike it. 

Sometimes they are not really cheap to begin with. Like a lot of malaysians, whenever they think of travelling locally or within asean, only AK comes to their mind. They wont bother checking other airlines fare. The world of travelling to them is only AK, whenever they are told to check fares of malindo or MH the first thing that comes to their mind is "expensive"

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2 minutes ago, Pall said:

Sometimes they are not really cheap to begin with. Like a lot of malaysians, whenever they think of travelling locally or within asean, only AK comes to their mind. They wont bother checking other airlines fare. The world of travelling to them is only AK, whenever they are told to check fares of malindo or MH the first thing that comes to their mind is "expensive"

Hahaha, but I believe the pandemic has somehow changed this mindset. AirAsia Group is now associated with delay, cancellation, rescheduling, no refund etc (even though the same can happen to any other airline), so they "better fly with FY, MH, OD and Z9 now". Or if they do fly AirAsia they will expect some delay, cancellation, rescheduling, so they will buy some insurance or space out their holiday schedule to accommodate delay. We need to thank AirAsia for educating the travelling public. Haha!

Notice how AirAsia Group free tickets sale of late are getting lukewarm response. Last time, 15 seconds boomz! All sold out!

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People should move from default analogy 'AK is d cheapest' to 'always check all carrier first prior to booking airticket'.

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New allocations (March 2023 release):

  1. KUL-HKT v.v. / +7x weekly    Batik Air    Feb-23 (commenced operation)
  2. KUL-JHB v.v. / 14x weekly    Batik Air    Mar-23 (commenced operation)
  3. KUL-CMB-MLE v.v. / 7x weekly    Batik Air    Apr-23 (commenced operation)

Source: https://www.mavcom.my/en/2023/03/07/air-traffic-rights-bulletin-february-2023/

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Albino looking a333 spotted similar to the 737max livery with registration 9M-LFC.

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17 hours ago, jahur said:

Albino looking a333 spotted similar to the 737max livery with registration 9M-LFC.

The irony, last time MSN 1820 was supposed to go to OD as 9M-LFC, it was reassigned to Thai Lion Air HS-LAH. Since then it was been reassigned to ID as PK-LEL.

I guess OD's inaugural flight to IST is all but certain. 

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CEO of Batik Air Malaysia Mushafiz Mustafa Bakri posted two reels outlining the updated fleet and route map. 

Looks like Batik Air Malaysia is keeping AirAsia X's A330-300 seat configuration. 377 (12Y+ 365Y)

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0R4WptFp8ei2jeDNJGbbhvmVGDsKJetzxgE9MKpThyrKhEyK54KMzQ7rsUUxrbbeUl&id=100001309142536&mibextid=Nif5oz

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02sb4nNDcv5zHoyrfQH36gN5LNoVXTjQDEgSLcXToQECBYXwwH5WM33FfdT5TdcqHLl&id=100001309142536&mibextid=Nif5oz

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