Lion Air
Lion Air has been rapidly expanding its fleet to meet the need for medium-haul jets in the world's 4th 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 2nd biggest was also made by Lion Air in 2011, in a $22.4-billion order for 230 Boeing jets.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. The airline is planning to join IATA and therefore hoping to become the 2nd 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 procedures in Indonesia, having successfully performed validation flights at the two terrain-challenged airports of Ambon and Manado.
Starting February 2010, Lion Air increased the number of flights to Jeddah to five times weekly. This route is being served by two Boeing 747-400 aircraft, which are fitted with 496 seats each.
From 19 July 2011, Lion Air has grounded 13 planes due to sanction caused by bad on-time performance 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. On the other hand, airlines using Jakarta airport face considerable delays to their schedules due to runway congestion.
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.
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 crystal methamphetamine. In late 2011 Muhammad Nasri and two other co-pilots were arrested at a party in Tangerang; in early 2012 a pilot was caught with crystal meth in Makassar. 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. The licenses of the pilots and crew have been revoked. Lion Air has a drug test program, in which the company's pilots, maintenance and engineering personnel, flight attendants and flight despatchers are required to undergo random drug tests. These tests can occur at anytime. Lion also cooperates with Indonesia's National Narcotics Board, and Lion has an ongoing internal advertising and PR campaign, "Say No To Drugs".
Lion Air has launched a full-service airline called Batik Air, which began operations in May 2013 using 737-900ERs. Lion Air also signed a commitment with Boeing to order five 787 Dreamliners, making it the 1st Indonesian airline to order the type since Garuda Indonesia cancelled its firm orders for 10 Dreamliners in 2010; it hopes to have them delivered by 2015. The airline had been considering ordering the competing Airbus A330 widebody but opted to purchase the 787.
On 11 September 2012, Lion Air and National Aerospace & Defence Industries Sdn Bhd signed a joint-venture agreement to set up a new airline in Malaysia, to be called Malindo Airways by May 2013. The two partners agreed to form another joint venture to provide maintenance services to all aircraft in the Lion Air Group, including any joint-venture airlines.
| Lion Air serves 60 international. | destinations, 55 domestic and 4 - |
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. 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. 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. 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. Deliveries of the -900ERs are to start in 2016, with the MAXs to follow in 2017.
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. The contract, which was signed at the Elysxe Palace in the presence of President Franxois Hollande and several government ministers, is worth €18.4 billion ($24 billion) at catalogue prices, the French presidency said.
Lion Air is one of several Indonesian carriers currently banned from operating in European airspace, because the European Commission has concerns about the Indonesian Directorate General of Civil Aviation's ability to provide proper regulatory oversight of the Indonesian airline industry.
In early 2012, the Transportation Ministry said that the airline was processing an Air Operator Certificate for their private business jets. Private-jet services will be launched in the 3rd 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.
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