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[[File:Boeing 737-900ER Lion Airlines PK-LFG May 2010.jpg|thumb|right|A Lion Air Livery Boeing at [[Soekarno Hatta International Airport]] in Terminal 1]]
[[File:Boeing 737-900ER Lion Airlines PK-LFG May 2010.jpg|thumb|right|A Lion Air Livery Boeing at [[Soekarno Hatta International Airport]] in Terminal 1]]
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 [[Boeing 737 MAX|737 MAX]] aircraft, with options for 150 more, valued at $21.7 billion at the time.<ref name="cnn">{{cite web|title=Boeing sets record with $22 billion order|url=http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/17/news/companies/boeing_order/index.htm |publisher=CNN Money |accessdate=15 February 2012 |date=17 November 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref name="ain"/> 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.<ref name="ain"/> Additionally, the engines for the -900ERs, CFM 56-7s, cost about $580 million and the engines for the MAXs, [[CFM International LEAP-X|CFM LEAP-1Bs]], cost about $4.8 billion.<ref name="ain"/> Deliveries of the -900ERs are to start in 2016, with the MAXs to follow in 2017.<ref name="ain">{{cite web |title=Lion Air Firms Up Boeing Order |url=http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/singapore-air-show/2012-02-14/lion-air-firms-boeing-order |publisher=Aviation International News |accessdate=15 February 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/65To3hdLj |archivedate=15 February 2012 |date=14 February 2012}}</ref>
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 [[Boeing 737 MAX|737 MAX]] aircraft, with options for 150 more, valued at $21.7 billion at the time.<ref name="cnn">{{cite web|title=Boeing sets record with $22 billion order|url=http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/17/news/companies/boeing_order/index.htm |publisher=CNN Money |accessdate=15 February 2012 |date=17 November 2011}}</ref> 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.<ref name="ain"/> 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.<ref name="ain"/> Additionally, the engines for the -900ERs, CFM 56-7s, cost about $580 million and the engines for the MAXs, [[CFM International LEAP-X|CFM LEAP-1Bs]], cost about $4.8 billion.<ref name="ain"/> Deliveries of the -900ERs are to start in 2016, with the MAXs to follow in 2017.<ref name="ain">{{cite web |title=Lion Air Firms Up Boeing Order |url=http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/singapore-air-show/2012-02-14/lion-air-firms-boeing-order |publisher=Aviation International News |accessdate=15 February 2012 |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/65To3hdLj |archivedate=15 February 2012 |date=14 February 2012}}</ref>

On Monday 18th March 2013 Lion Air placed an order for 234 A320 jets with Airbus, the largest single order the European plane maker has ever received.

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.


===Retired fleet===
===Retired fleet===

Revision as of 14:33, 18 March 2013

Not to be confused with Lionair.
Lion Air
File:Lion Air logo.svg
IATA ICAO Call sign
JT LNI LION INTER
Founded1999[1]
Hubs
Focus citiesNgurah Rai International Airport (Denpasar)
Frequent-flyer programLion Passport
SubsidiariesWings Air
Lion Bizjet
Batik Air
Malindo Air
Fleet size83
Destinations79
HeadquartersJakarta, Indonesia
Key peopleRusdi Kirana (CEO)
Websitelionair.co.id

PT Lion Mentari Airlines, operating as Lion Air, is Indonesia’s largest privately run airline, capturing the largest share of the domestic market share. Headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, Lion Air flies to cities within Indonesia and to Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Its main base is Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta.[2] It operates scheduled passenger services on an extensive network from Jakarta to 56 destinations (as of July 2010).

Along with most other Indonesian carriers, Lion Air (including its Wings Air subsidiary) is on the list of air carriers banned in the European Union due to safety concerns as of February 2012.

History

A Lion Air MD-82 at Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport

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 IATA and 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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5][6] On the other hand, airlines using Jakarta airport face considerable delays to their schedules due to runway congestion.[7]

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.[8]

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; and in early 2012 a pilot was caught in possession of crystal meth in Makassar.[9] 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.[10] 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.[11] The airline had also been considering ordering the competing Airbus A330 widebody, but opted to purchase the 787.[12]

On 11 September 2012, Lion Air and National Aerospace & Defence Industries Sdn Bhd (Nadi) signed a JV agreement to set up a new airline in Malaysia, to be called Malindo Airways by May 2013. The two partners also agreed to form another JV to provide aircraft maintenance services to all aircraft in the Lion Air Group, including any joint-venture airlines.[13]

Destinations

Main article: Lion Air destinations

Lion Air serves 60 destinations, 55 domestic and 4 international (as of December 2012).

Fleet

Current fleet

Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER at Singapore Changi Airport
Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER at Changi

As of December 2012, the Lion Air fleet is the world's largest customer of Boeing 737-900 and ATR-72.[14] The fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 4.8 years:[15]

Aircraft In Service Orders[16][17] Passengers Notes
B E Total
Airbus A320 — 60 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 13 0 189 189 Orders converted from -900ER
Boeing 737-900ER 67 90 0 213 213 Launch Customer
Boeing 737 MAX 9 — 201 TBA Launch Customer[18]
Boeing 787-8 — 5 TBA
Boeing 747-400 2 — 22 484 496 Bought from Oasis Hong Kong Airlines
McDonnell Douglas MD-90 1 —
Total 92 543

Orders

Lion Air was the launch customer of the 737-900ER, seen here on the type's first flight

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.

A Lion Air Livery Boeing at Soekarno Hatta International Airport in Terminal 1

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.[8] 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.[19] 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.[19] 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.[19] Deliveries of the -900ERs are to start in 2016, with the MAXs to follow in 2017.[19]

On Monday 18th March 2013 Lion Air placed an order for 234 A320 jets with Airbus, the largest single order the European plane maker has ever received.

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.

Retired fleet

Aircraft Total
Airbus A310[20] 2
Boeing 737-200[21] 2
McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 5
Yakovlev Yak-42[22] 1

Private jet business

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.[23]

Incidents and accidents

  • On 14 January 2002, Lion Air Flight 386, a Boeing 737-200 crashed on take-off and was written off; no one was killed.
  • On 30 November 2004, Lion Air Flight 538, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed in Surakarta, killing 25 people.[24]
  • On 4 March 2006, Lion Air Flight 8987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed after landing at Juanda International Airport.[25] Reverse thrust was used during landing, although the left thrust reverser was stated to be out of service.[25] This caused the aircraft to veer to the right and skid off the runway, coming to rest about 7,000 feet (2,100 m) from the approach end of the runway.[25] No-one was killed but the aircraft was badly damaged.[25]
  • On 24 December 2006, Lion Air Flight 792, a Boeing 737-400, landed with an incorrect flap configuration and was not aligned with the runway.[26] The plane landed hard and skidded along the runway causing the right main landing gear to detach, the left gear to protrude through the wing and some of the aircraft fuselage to be wrinkled.[26] No one was killed and the aircraft was written off.[26]
  • On 2 November 2010, Lion Air Flight 712, a Boeing 737-400 (registration PK-LIQ) overran the runway on landing at Supadio Airport, Pontianak, coming to rest on its belly and sustaining damage to its nose gear. All 174 passengers and crew evacuated by the emergency slides, with few injuries reported.[27]

References

  1. ^ 2013 Laureate Award Nominees, Aviation Week & Space Technology, 21 January 2013, p. 47
  2. ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-03. p. 106.
  3. ^ Boeing, Lion Air pioneer precision satellite navigation technology
  4. ^ Lion Air adds extra flights to Jeddah
  5. ^ Lion Air Should Grounded 13 Planes
  6. ^ "Lion, Batavia pledge to improve performance". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ a b "Boeing sets record with $22 billion order". CNN Money. 17 November 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  9. ^ "Lion air sanctioned over pilots with crystal meth". 11 January 2012.
  10. ^ "Lagi, Pilot Lion Air Nyabu Ditangkap BNN". 4 February 2012.
  11. ^ Govindasamy, Siva (9 June 2012). "IATA: Lion's Batik Air to up the competition in Southeast Asia". Flightglobal. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  12. ^ Walker, Karen (8 June 2012). "Lion Air signs Dreamliner commitment for premium carrier". Air Transport World. Retrieved 10 June 2012.
  13. ^ Lion Air Takes Fight to AirAsia's Malaysia Home
  14. ^ AW & ST, 21 January 2013, p. 47
  15. ^ Lion Airlines Fleet Details and History PlaneSpotters.net. Retrieved 6 December 2012
  16. ^ Lion Air Orders and Deliveries. Boeing. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  17. ^ http://http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/lion-air-unveils-order-for-over-230-airbus-jets-383551/
  18. ^ "Boeing, Lion Air Finalize Historic Order for up to 380 737s". Boeing.mediaroom.com. 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
  19. ^ a b c d "Lion Air Firms Up Boeing Order". Aviation International News. 14 February 2012. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
  20. ^ http://www.airliners.net/photo/Lion-Airlines/Airbus-A310-322/0267036/L/&sid=1f91ed6ff959cbf9e788c2a140b48274
  21. ^ http://www.airliners.net/photo/Lion-Airlines/Boeing-737-2P5-Adv/1992364/L/&sid=1f91ed6ff959cbf9e788c2a140b48274
  22. ^ Airliners.net
  23. ^ "Lion Air set to buy Hawker jets for private services". February 10, 2012.
  24. ^ "Accident: Fatal Accident in 2004". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
  25. ^ a b c d "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  26. ^ a b c "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  27. ^ Hradecky, Simon. "Accident: Lionair B734 at Pontianak on Nov 2nd 2010, overran runway on landing". Aviation Herald. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
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