But did they let you check your bags? They were letting us on the flight, just wouldn’t let me check our bags after the cutoff. And it just so happened they wouldn’t let me carry on my bags either since they were too big. So it was either leave our bags or skip the flight.
I have no doubt about your charm 
Yeah, that’s often the issue. The one time I clearly remember with AirAsia (to either KL or Manila, not sure) we didn’t have checked luggage. 
I’ve done it with checked luggage before, but that was with a different airline, in China, and not really my fault, and I had to rely more on being annoying rather than charming. (That one was quite fun actually — I got taken to some operations room you don’t normally see as a passenger then whisked through security carrying all my checked luggage, which contained stuff I wasn’t supposed to take airside, to catch the flight. Made it though. 
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wow, China plays by their own rules haha
Or, as it turns out, apparently they won’t. What’s up with this reversal? 
Guy
Because AirAsia is shit.
I have no experience with this company. But I do find it odd that they would make a big deal of announcing this new route, sell a bunch of discounted tickets, then yank the route before it started. It just looks like a way to piss off customers . . .
Guy
They really do like to yank things. Not the first thing. Not the only thing.
I loathe hem, but so many times they just fit the bill perfect…if they don’t yank me or my ticket.
Do you like alcohol?
No. But the way that airline seems to do things would likely make me want to drink. 
Guy
Well if it’s not at all then it might not affect you.
But for someone like me that likes to partake in a bit of consuming the booze every now and then, I like to buy exotic drinks when I am overseas.
Air Asia on the other hand seems to think that forcing their Malaysian Muslim beliefs down my throat is an appropriate business strategy as they are the only airline I know of probably outside of an Arab country that designates alcoholic drinks, all of them, as ‘Dangerous Goods’.
If they serve me a good beef rendang, all will be forgiven. 
Guy
Don’t they serve beer in flight?
Not that I know of.
Looks to depend on which part of AirAsia is being talked about (Thai AirAsia, AirAsia X, etc.), plus maybe the route.
Some of the menus here have drinks.
I think it’s the same with carrying alcohol in luggage. It’s not completely banned across all routes and the entirety of AirAsia. I’ve done it at least once, maybe twice, without issue (from Thailand, possibly from the Philippines too – don’t remember). Some rules here.
Mine is the Manila Taipei route. No alcoholic drinks whatsoever.
I’ve always brought a few bottles of exotic alcohols when I travel.
So . . . were your goods seized at the security check point? Or were they seized by the airline at some other point?
If it’s the latter, I’m trying to imagine what that would look like . . .
Guy
Fire hazard seems the only logical reason? I tend not to assume religion = lotic/intelligence. I have brought alcohol back to Taiwan on air Asia before. But I don’t remember when or where. Need to think.
One thing, Marco might have a point on. Malaysia has increasingly gone more and more strictly islam/Muslim. I can’t comment on airlines. But generally speaking within the western part of the country (havent been to borneo for a while), it is quite apparent and LOADS of locals are pretty vocally complaining about it.