Lion Air Group chairman Rusdi Kirana has reiterated the airline group’s commitment to the Boeing 737 Max, with Malaysian unit Batik Air Malaysia set to take its first Max 9 aircraft early 2023.

Last year’s first-ever 737 MAX delivery went to Malaysia’s Malindo Air, a low-fare airline that’s now known as Batik Air Malaysia and is under the wing of Lion Air Group.

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Malindo Air’s first 737 MAX 8 jet is already painted in livery that reflects the airline’s future rebranding as Batik Air Malaysia. (Boeing Photo) ...

Relaunched as Batik Air in April 2022 and owned by Lion Air , Malindo would be the airline to suffer the first 737 MAX 8 tragedy. On October 29, 2018, Flight 610 left the Indonesian capital of ...

Flights will operate 3X-weekly, again aboard 737 MAX 8s. In addition, Batik will return to Colombo, Sri Lanka, on May 12 for the first time since the onset of the pandemic March 2020.

Malindo Air was the first airline in the world to fly the Boeing 737 MAX-8 in 2017. However the airline’s fleet comprised the 737 NG variant and ATR turboprop aircraft by 2019, when the 737 MAX ...

Wreckage of a 737 Max in Ethiopia in 2019, one of two fatal crashes involving the airplane in just 18 months. REUTERS The Max flies farther and is more fuel-efficient.