PT Lion Mentari Airlines, operating as Lion Air, is Indonesia’s largest privately run airline, capturing the largest share of the domestic market. Headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, Lion Air flies to cities within Indonesia and to Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia and some charter routes to China Mainland and Hong Kong. Its main base is Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta.[2] It operates scheduled passenger services on an extensive network from Jakarta to 79 Destinations.[3]
Lion Air has been rapidly expanding its fleet to meet the need for medium-haul jets in the world's fourth most populous country. On March 2013 Lion air & Airbus signed a $24-billion contract - recorded as the most valuable commercial order booked in history - for 234 A320s. The second biggest was also made by Lion Air in 2011, in a $22.4-billion order for 230 Boeing jets.[3]
History [edit]
The airline was established in October 1999 and started operations on June 30, 2000, when it began scheduled passenger services between Jakarta and Pontianak using a leased Boeing 737-200. It is owned by Rusdi Kirana and family.[2] The airline is also planning to join IATAand therefore hoping to become the second IATA Indonesian member carrier after Garuda Indonesia. Lion Air failed, in early 2011, the initial IATA assessments for membership due to safety concerns. Lion Air and Boeing are pioneering the use of Required Navigation Performance (RNP) procedures in Indonesia, having successfully performed validation flights at the two terrain-challenged airports of Ambon and Manado.[4]
Starting February 2010, Lion Air increased the number of flights to Jeddah to five times weekly. This route is being served by two Boeing 747-400aircraft, which are fitted with 496 seats each.[5]
Aviation Week has reported that Lion Air is planning to establish a joint-venture with Malaysian regional carrier Berjaya Air, in order to create a Malaysian subsidiary. However, the venture was canceled after it became clear that AirAsia and MAS would collude rather than compete.
From 19 July 2011, Lion Air has grounded 13 planes due to sanction caused by bad on-time performance (OTP) until Lion Air can fulfill at least 80 percent of OTP. The transportation ministry recorded that Lion Air's OTP of 66.45 percent was the worst of six airlines in an assessment conducted from January to April 2011 at 24 airports nationwide.[6][7] On the other hand, airlines using Jakarta airport face considerable delays to their schedules due to runway congestion.[8]
On 18 November 2011, the airline jointly announced with Boeing for a record-setting order of 201 Boeing 737 MAX and 29 Boeing 737-900ER planes setting the record for the world's biggest single order of 230 planes for a commercial airline worth $21.7 billion.[9]
In January 2012, the Transportation Ministry said that it sanctioned Lion Air because some of its pilots and crew members were found in recent months to be in possession of crystalmethamphetamine. In late 2011 Muhammad Nasri and two other co-pilots were arrested at a party in Tangerang; and in early 2012 a pilot was caught in possession of crystal meth in Makassar.[10] On 4 February 2012, another Lion Air pilot was arrested following a positive urinalysis test for use of methamphetamine; he was scheduled to fly on Surabaya-Makassar-Balikpapan-Surabaya flight hours later.[11] The licenses of the pilots and crew have been revoked.
Lion Air is planning to create a long-haul airline called Batik Air, which will begin operations in 2013 using 737-900ERs. Lion Air also signed a commitment with Boeing to order five 787 Dreamliners for the airline, making it the first Indonesian airline to order the type since Garuda Indonesia cancelled its firm orders for 10 Dreamliners in 2010, and hopes to have them delivered by 2015.[12] The airline had also been considering ordering the competing Airbus A330 widebody, but opted to purchase the 787.[13]
On 11 September 2012, Lion Air and National Aerospace & Defence Industries Sdn Bhd (Nadi) signed a joint-venture agreement to set up a new airline in Malaysia, to be called Malindo Airwaysby May 2013. The two partners also agreed to form another joint venture to provide aircraft maintenance services to all aircraft in the Lion Air Group, including any joint-venture airlines.[14]
Destinations [edit]
Main article: Lion Air destinations
Lion Air serves 60 destinations, 55 domestic and 4 international (as of December 2012).
Current fleet [edit]
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As of December 2012, the Lion Air fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 5 years:[15]
| Aircraft | In Service | Orders[16][17] | Passengers | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| J | Y | Total | ||||||||
| Airbus A320-200 | — | 60[18] | TBA | — | ||||||
| Airbus A320neo | — | 109 | TBA | — | ||||||
| Airbus A321neo | — | 65 | TBA | — | ||||||
| Boeing 737-300 | 2 | — | 0 | 149 | 149 | To be retired | ||||
| Boeing 737-400 | 5 | — | 0 | 168 | 168 | Exit from service in 2017. | ||||
| Boeing 737-800 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 189 | 189 | Orders converted from -900ER; one written-off. | ||||
| Boeing 737-900ER | 67 | 90 | 0 | 213 | 213 | Launch Customer | ||||
| Boeing 737 MAX 9 | — | 201 | TBA | Launch Customer[19] | ||||||
| Boeing 747-400 | 2 | — | 22 | 484 | 496 | Bought from Oasis Hong Kong Airlines | ||||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 1 | — | ||||||||
| Total | 92 | 537 | ||||||||
Orders [edit]
Lion Air was the launch customer for the largest variant of the Boeing 737, the 737-900ER, which it placed an order for in 2005. On 26 May 2005, Lion Air signed a preliminary agreement with Boeing for the purchase of up to 60 Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft, valued at $3.9 billion at list prices. Lion Air confirmed their order in July 2005 and became the launch customer for the Boeing 737-900ER with firm orders for 30 aircraft and options for 30 more, which were later converted into firm orders. The -900ER can carry up to 215 passengers in a single-class layout, and is powered by CFM56-7B turbofan engines. On 27 April 2007, Boeing delivered the first 737-900ER to Lion Air. The aircraft was delivered in a special dual-paint scheme that combines Lion Air's logo on its vertical stabilizer and the Boeing "Dreamliner" livery on the fuselage.
Lion Air set a record when it placed an order for 230 aircraft from Boeing, making this the largest order in terms of aircraft ordered as well the cost of the order. In November 2011, Lion Air and Boeing announced that the airline planned to buy 29 737-900ER and 201 737 MAX aircraft, with options for 150 more, valued at $21.7 billion at the time.[9] A firm order was signed on 14 February 2012, with the 737 MAX aircraft identified as 737 MAX 9s, making Lion Air the launch customer for that variant.[20] By the time of the signing, the order's value had risen to $22.4 billion at list prices, the largest aircraft order in history.[20] Additionally, the engines for the -900ERs, CFM 56-7s, cost about $580 million and the engines for the MAXs, CFM LEAP-1Bs, cost about $4.8 billion.[20] Deliveries of the -900ERs are to start in 2016, with the MAXs to follow in 2017.[20]
On Monday 18 March 2013 Lion Air placed an order for 234 A320 jets with Airbus, the largest single order ever made surpassing previous record by Boeing ($22.4 Billion). The contract, which was signed at the Elysée Palace in the presence of President François Hollande and several government ministers, is worth €18.4 billion ($24 billion) at catalogue prices, the French presidency said.[21]
Former fleet [edit]
| Aircraft | Total | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Airbus A310[22] | 2 | |
| Boeing 737-200[23] | 2 | |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 | 5 | |
| Yakovlev Yak-42[24] | 1 |
EU aviation blacklist [edit]
Main article: List of air carriers banned in the European Union
Lion Air is currently banned from operating in European airspace. The ban was imposed by the European Commission in consultation with member states' aviation authorities after Lion Air was found unsafe to conduct operations anywhere in European airspace.[25][26]
Private jet business [edit]
In early 2012, the Transportation Ministry said that the airline was processing an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) for their private business jets. Private-jet services will be launched in the third quarter of 2012 with 4 of nine-seater jets Hawker 900 XP. The aim is to serve clients from the country's mining industry and will compete with Susi Air and Royal Jet.[35]
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