Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

KLIA to KLIA2

Country forums / South-East Asia Islands & Peninsula / Malaysia

I plan to travel from Dhaka to Kuala Lumpur this month (October 2014) on Malindo Air, to connect to KL to Lombok on Air Asia. I think Malindo lands on KLIA and Air Asia will depart from KLIA 2.
I will hopefully have a 4-hour transit.
My question is - how do I go from KLIA to KLIA 2?

There's a train between the two (and into town).

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Thank you! I just found out that Malindo Air actually lands in KLIA2, which means no need to transfer.

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But you will probably have to go through Malaysian immigration with your bags and check in again. Then exit Malaysia again.
I have done this between AA flights and I think four hours should be ample for this.

Paul

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It may not be necessary to go through immigration, if you have carry-on luggage only.
In August 2014 I flew from Denpasar to KLIA2 with Air Asia. I then had a 7 hour wait for my next flight to Australia. These flights were on separate tickets...not a "fly-thru" ticket. I did not have any check-in luggage, and I had checked-in via web check-in.
On landing at KLIA2, I went to the transfer hall reception and asked the officials there if I could go directly into the transfer hall without going through immigration. They told me that as I had already checked-in via the web and had my boarding pass at hand, all was OK. My only concern was that my boarding pass indicated that I needed to go to an Air Asia "Document Check" counter. There was no such counter in the transfer hall, but I had no problem boarding the flight.
So, if you have: (a) carry-on luggage only and; (b)a printed boarding pass via web check-in, then; go to directly to the transfer hall to ask the officials for direct access. If they reject you for any reason, just continue on to immigration/customs.
Good luck.

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No worries either way,4 hours is ample.....

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