Malindo was good, Batik isn't
Used to be good when it was launched and called Malindo Air. It slowly turned into a really bad low-cost airline. And then came covid. Post-covid the prices are crazy high. I get it that all airlines are trying to recover their losses post-covid (at daylight robbery speed, I might add), but charging full service airline prices for a really crappy low-budget, low-cost, no-frill airline is completely and utterly a scam! Yes, the prices are really comparable to Malaysia Airlines for the same sector! The planes are not kept well at all (bad broken seats, unclean toilets), entertainment systems have disappeared, business class is a hit-or-miss (in that, you never know what you are booking for, most of their fleet does not have one). Everything from water to meals have to be purchased! Even on the rare occasions that the plane has an entertainment system, even the headsets have to be purchased! That's when you know that the airline company is taking you (the gullible consumer with no choice - not many airline options for my flight sector) for a ride! They always keep sending these emails with promo fares. When you click on the mail, it leads to the "promo" page with a "Book" button next to the destination that is being promo'ed. It leads to a flight search popup window which invariably has all search parameters (location, to and from dates, class etc.) disabled. Don't ever fall for those "promo" emails - they are nothing but pure scams to bait you into land on their website. All in all, seems a desperate yet mistargeted attempt to keep a flailing airline afloat! Bring back the old and better Malindo Air, not the messy, scammy, ill-managed B*tt-tick Air.