A short report on just a routine weekend getaway to the neighbouring capital city on Malindo, with tickets bought at very attractive prices. Checked in at Terminal 3 (no online check-in available for Lion group flights from SIN) and boarding pass issued.
Xmas wonderland in Terminal 3.
FIDS
Departure from Gate A14.
17 November 2017
Malindo Air
OD 806
Singapore (SIN) - Kuala Lumpur (KUL)
B737-900ER
9M-LNG
Economy Class
Flight Time: 0H36M
Boarding just commenced.
The scheduled B737-800 was upgraded to a slightly larger capacity B737-900ER.
SQ B777 taxied in at the neighbouring gate.
Boarding the aircraft.
Passing the Business Class cabin.
Economy class seats.
Touchscreen IFE at every seat.
View out the window.
Boarding in progress for this very full flight.
Then a big boo-boo… We realised that we were seated at Row 27 instead of 26 when the actual Row 27 pax turned up. Moved forward to Row 26 and Horrors… there is no window on the supposedly "window seat" that we requested during check-in…. Maybe the agent does not know that Row 26 is windowless on the B739ER aircraft? Row 26 is at the sealed aircraft door (which was not in use on this low density B739ER). Adding to that, the IFE system on my seat 26A was completely broken….
Inflight magazines. Legroom was good.
Safety video played. Photo of the neighbouring seat. My IFE system was completely dead and the safety video did not play on my screen. Wondered if this is considered a safety lapse?
No further pictures out the window, and the windowless seat felt rather claustrophobic. Recline was pretty decent. Notified the crew about the dead IFE monitor but with the short flight, the forward crew did not attempt to reset the system. Quite disappointed with the non-follow-up.
Malindo has reduced the service on its short sectors to only juices on offer. Muffins are not offered now. We had a choice of berry or lychee juices amd had a cup of each.
Arrived on schedule in KUL.
View from the room.
In search of the best charsiew in KL, I googled and decided on this very popular and highly rated eatery at the outskirts of KL. The charsiew is really melt-in-your-mouth delicious!
Sinful dessert at Melted Chocolate Cafe in front of Lot10 at Bukit Bintang.
Dinner at another popular eatery, Sin Kee Restaurant at KL Sentral.
Went to ICC Pudu for brunch on the Sunday, a place of good food all under one roof.
This stall selling egg tarts fresh out of the oven is very popular!
Hi,TerryYong.
Thank you for your report.
I'm sorry to hear that you were seated one of the "fake" window seats ,with the out of order IFE.
My experience on Malindo B737-900 was not so good because My ship wasn't equipped with IFE. They seems to remove costly IFEs for the further rename to batik Malaysia. I was bit disappointed because they tried to get on the track of the pure LCC.
Hey, maybe I can answer your question.
I heard that Lion Group had issues with the IFE supplier, so they didn't install it to newer planes. This issue also happened in Indonesia's Batik Air
Hi Terry! Thanks for reporting!
Why they don't serve snack anymore? They do some cost cutting, like what happened in Batik Air?