Batik Air commencing Istanbul and Tashkent

[AIRwin]

Batik Air Malaysia Discontinues Istanbul Service in late-April 2024 — AeroRoutes

Published at 0730GMT 03MAY24 Batik Air Malaysia last week discontinued service to Türkiye, which saw the airline operated last Kuala Lumpur – Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen flight on 29-30APR24. The airline previously scheduled 3 weekly flights with Airbus A330-300 aircraft for Northern summer 2024 seas

www.aeroroutes.com

 

[zainman]

Is batik air resuming the non stop MEL flight? Can’t see any announcements but it’s there on their website

 

[AIRwin]

Otherwise, you could fly to CGK, KUL or BKK and pick up Uzbekistan Airways to TAS.

And soon DPS:

Uzbekistan Airways Adds Denpasar Service From Dec 2024 — AeroRoutes

Published at 1400GMT 07OCT24 Uzbekistan Airways in Northern winter 2024/25 season plans to add new service to Indonesia, as the airline filed Tashkent – Denpasar schedule. From 03DEC24, the airline plans to operate this route once a week with Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. HY543 TAS2300 – 1100+1DPS

www.aeroroutes.com

 

[Mattg]

And soon DPS:

Uzbekistan Airways Adds Denpasar Service From Dec 2024 — AeroRoutes

Published at 1400GMT 07OCT24 Uzbekistan Airways in Northern winter 2024/25 season plans to add new service to Indonesia, as the airline filed Tashkent – Denpasar schedule. From 03DEC24, the airline plans to operate this route once a week with Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. HY543 TAS2300 – 1100+1DPS

www.aeroroutes.com

That's an interesting one

 

[Wanderlust_tim]

And soon DPS:

Uzbekistan Airways Adds Denpasar Service From Dec 2024 — AeroRoutes

Published at 1400GMT 07OCT24 Uzbekistan Airways in Northern winter 2024/25 season plans to add new service to Indonesia, as the airline filed Tashkent – Denpasar schedule. From 03DEC24, the airline plans to operate this route once a week with Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. HY543 TAS2300 – 1100+1DPS

www.aeroroutes.com

Is there an end date for this? Getting to DPS is a lot easier than most of the alternatives.

 

[AIRwin]

Getting to DPS is a lot easier than most of the alternatives.

It'll most likely require an overnight in DPS though

 

[Wanderlust_tim]

It'll most likely require an overnight in DPS though

I can think of worse ways to start a long journey

 

[AIRwin]

Aircraft changes:

Batik Air Malaysia 1H25 Tashkent Service Changes — AeroRoutes

Published at 1700GMT 25DEC24 Batik Air Malaysia in the first half of 2025 is adjusting operational aircraft on Kuala Lumpur – Tashkent route. From 27JAN25, the two weekly flights will be operated by Boeing 737 MAX 8, replacing the A330-300. Service will be suspended from 01MAR25 to 27MAR25, base

www.aeroroutes.com

 

[Mattg]

Aircraft changes:

Batik Air Malaysia 1H25 Tashkent Service Changes — AeroRoutes

Published at 1700GMT 25DEC24 Batik Air Malaysia in the first half of 2025 is adjusting operational aircraft on Kuala Lumpur – Tashkent route. From 27JAN25, the two weekly flights will be operated by Boeing 737 MAX 8, replacing the A330-300. Service will be suspended from 01MAR25 to 27MAR25, base

www.aeroroutes.com

Oof - those are long flights on a 737.

 

[moa999]

Given this seems to be a generic Batik/ Batik Malaysian thread.
Recently flew OD540 KUL-HKT on a Max8.

OD operate from KLIA and had some print bag tag machines at the end of the check-in row which allowed me to avoid the check-in queue and use the much shorter bag drop queue.

Strange mostly white livery that I suspect reflected Lion Group roots of the aircraft, but Batik seems to have a lot of different liveries.
This was one of the all Y aircraft and weirdly it starts Row 1 on the ABC side but 2 on the DEF side despite the seats being fairly closely aligned - even the crew got confused during service.

My original booking was for 4F which I think was an aircraft with Biz but this got swapped out some time.



I'd booked OD over MH as it was substantially cheaper even with seat selection and baggage, think MYR299 all in, and the MH regional lounge isn't that great.

The included meal (Lamb Biryani) and soft drink was decent enough.