Any airline including AirAsia are not allowed to bring foreigners into the country via air routes.

Senior Minister (Security Cluster) Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the government had maintained a policy to prevent foreigners from entering the country but only Malaysians were allowed.

“No (the national border is not open), we are still with our policy and our policy is that foreigners are still not allowed into the country.

"I was just talking to AirAsia, they said no and I told them, if none, thank goodness, otherwise we are not going to allow non-citizens to enter our country.

"(The passengers) they can take from Indonesia or any country, are Malaysian citizens and even Malaysian citizens if they enter our country will be quarantined for 14 days," he said in a press conference here Wednesday.

He said this when asked if the government would open the country's borders in the near future after it was learned that low-cost carrier AirAsia Indonesia would start operations on May 18.