Mulai 31 Maret 2017 Lion Air Grup Membuka Rute Denpasar - Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Lion Air Grup membuka rute Denpasar-Brisbane, Queensland, Australia mulai 31 Maret 2017 melalui perusahaan patungan Malindo Airways dengan menggunakan pesawat Boeing 780-400 Malindo Air.

Penerbangan sekitar 4.492 km dengan waktu tempuh rata-rata dari Denpasar (Bali) ke Brisbane 5 jam 25 menit tersebut akan dilayani setiap hari pada pukul 22.00 WIT dari Denpasar dan pukul 07.00 pagi dari Brisbane.

Penerbangan dengan ongkos Jakarta - Brisbane sekitar Rp2,9 juta per orang, selain membidik wisatawan asing dari Brisbane ke Denpasar juga menyasar penumpang dari Kula Lumpur menuju Brisbane via Denpasar.

Manajer PR Lion Andy Saladin mengakui pasar ini cukup potensial [secara ekonomi]. Ada 22 penerbangan seminggu dari Denpasar (Bali) ke Brisbane.

"Penerbangan ini menggunakan Boeing 780-400 dengan 12 seats bisnis'," ujar Andy.

Malindo Airways [Malindo Air] adalah maskapai penerbangan bertarif rendah yang berbasis di Malaysia. Maskapai ini merupakan perusahaan patungan antara Malaysia National Aerospace and Defence Industries (NADI) (51%) dan Lion Air dari Indonesia (49%).

Nama Malindo berasal dari nama negara masing-masing: Malaysia dan Indonesia. Awalnya Malindo Air direncanakan beroperasi pada 1 Mei 2013 dari terminal baru KLIA2. Akan tetapi, pihak Malindo Air memajukan tanggal peluncurannya menjadi pertengahan Maret 2013 dengan rute domestik. Malindo Air hanya menyediakan kursi kelas ekonomi dan bisnis.

Malindo memiliki total pesawat 45 yakni 16 Unit ATR 72-600, 23 Unit Boeing 737-800 dan enam unit Boeing 737-900.

Brisbane adalah ibu kita negara bagian Queensland , Australia. Berdasar data per Juni 2004, Brisbane berpenduduk sekitar 957.010 jiwa di pusat kota dan 1,77 juta jiwa di wilayah metropolitan.

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LION AIR passenger numbers in the first quarter rose 10%

Indonesia national airline PT Lion Mentari Airlines or Lion Air successful a growing number of passengers during the first quarter of this year. The number of airline passengers increased by 10% over the same quarter last year.

General Director of Lion Air, Edward Sirait explain the increase in passenger numbers due to the revitalization of the fleet is carried out by the company. In addition, Lion Air also made additional flight frequencies on domestic routes.

In the first quarter of this year, Lion Air recorded an increase of about 800,000 passengers, up 10% over the same quarter last year amounted to 7.2 million passengers.

"Of the eight million passengers, mostly from domestic flights is 98% or 7,840,000 passengers, while the rest coming from international flight around 160,000 passengers," said Edward. 

Edward said that most domestic routes is Jakarta-Medan route. This route has 20 times flights per day. The load factor for the Jakarta-Medan route stable at 82.5%. While on international routes, the airline is still concentrating on the route from Jakarta to Singapore, Jakarta to Jeddah and Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur.

Although there is the addition of 10% the number of passengers in the first quarter of 2012, but he was pessimistic until the end of this year could raise the overall airline passenger numbers up 10%. Edward argued, the month of July, after the September school holidays and after the Eid holidays are the low season.

Last year, Lion Air transport 24.97 million domestic passengers in 2011, or approximately 41.59% of total domestic passengers nationwide. Edward says, the flight routes which opened earlier this year was a direct route from Jakarta to Manado since last February 2012. While the end of this month Lion Air will open two direct routes namely Surabaya to Ambon and Surabaya to Palu without transit in Balikpapan.

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LION AIR to buy 230 Boeing aircraft worth US$ 21.7 billion

Lion Air has signed a purchase of 230 new types of aircraft made ​​by Boeing Co.. Purchase of 737 aircraft jetliner amounted to U.S. $ 21.7 billion is the biggest deal for Boeing.

Purchase agreement will be signed on Friday (18 / 1). U.S. President Barack Obama is following the ASEAN Summit to witness the signing of the sale and purchase contract.

In this sale, Lion Air will buy 201 737 MAX aircraft with engine has been upgraded. In addition, the Indonesia national airline will also buy 29 737-900s air craft types.

Lion Air President Director Rusdi Kirana said the new aircraft that have advanced technology and highly efficient Lion Air will help develop low-cost carrier. "The addition of these aircraft will also add new routes," he said, Friday (18/11).

RBC Capital Markets analyst Rob Stallard said, the purchase of plane by Lion Air made as an big deal for Boeing. "It means a lot to improve security to Boeing and MAX," he said.

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LION Air passengers increased during the Islamic holiday

PT Lion Mentari Airlines recorded an increase in the number of passengers during the  Islamic holiday this year, which is reach 1.2 million passengers, increase 20%compared with the last transportation year's period.

Edward Sirait, Managing Director of Lion Air, the frequency of flights during Islamic holiday transport until today reached 157 scheduled flights, an increase of 40.2% where in the past year serving 112 flights.

He revealed the number of seats to provide in the current year is about 30 thousand seats. Moreover, according to Edward, the level of on time performance (OTP) also showed a positive trend which reached 82%. "The OTP of Lion Air has exceeded the recommended average of 80%," said Edward Sirait.

According to Edward, during the Islamic holiday, Lion Air routes increased significantly are Surabaya-Balikpapan, Surabaya-Banjarmasin, Jakarta-Jogjakarta, Jakarta-Solo and Jakarta-Padang. The increase in the routes, he added, reaching 15% compared to a normal day.

Edward said they had added 200 seats per day during to serve the increasing demand for flights on the busy routes . "Lion Air also increase the frequency of four flights for four days with a total of 4800 additional seats to serve the reverse flow. We have budgeted an additional flight on demand," he said.

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LION AIR as the WORST airline in the On Time Performance

Lion Air was recorded as the worst airline in the timeliness - the on time performance (OTP) in Indonesia. Based on the results recap of the Ministry of Transportation during the I quarter of 2011, the Lion Air’s OTP average only reaches 66.45%.

According Ministry of Transportation, this is not the first time of the airline that owned by PT Lion Mentari Airlines has record a poor performance in the OTP. During January - April 2011, the Lion Air on time perfomance had reached a low of 54.30% in February. Whereas the highest achieved in April OTP at 77.30%.

Batavia Airlines OTP rate slightly better, reaching 68.83%. While the best OTP is still held by Garuda Indonesia 86.98%, while the OTP of Merpati Airlines 75.60%, Sriwijaya Air 74% and AirAsia 71.96%.

Director General of Civil Aviation, Herry Bakti, ask the airline who has punctuality rate into a bad category to improve its performance so that it can reach 80%. "They have to arrange the schedule according to ability," he said.

Herry said, airlines are often late is usually caused by high frequency of flights, but not matched with the fleet and adequate human resources. As for Lion Air, Ministry of Transportation has given sanction in the form of six-unit reduction in the frequency of plane flights.

Flight Observer, Ruth Hannah Simatupang, argues, to improve the on time performance, the airline should work with other airlines during a delay or cancellation. "So far, the only Garuda Indonesia has did it and it was for international routes," said Ruth..

Edward Sirait, General Director of Lion Air, pledging it will continue to improve the on time performance. Since reducing the frequency of flights, the OTP has increased. "Our last July OTP 76%," said Edward. In addition to reducing the frequency, Lion Air also increase the OTP by adding ground time from 35 minutes to 45 minutes.

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Lion Air still want to BUILD hangar in INDONESIA

Until now, PT Lion Mentari Airlines still seeking development of hangar for their aircraft maintenance in Indonesia. According to General Director of PT. Lion Mentari Airlines, Edward Sirait, needed a better solution for these efforts. "We still want to build a hangar in Indonesia," said Edward.

Edward said, now there is a bid to Lion Air to build a hangar at the airport Riwut Little, Palangkaraya, Technical Implementation Unit of the Ministry of Transportation. "We also are considering about this solution," he said.

Regarding the request of joint cooperation from PT Angkasa Pura I to manage the hangar aircraft that will be built at Sam Ratulangi Airport, Manado, North Sulawesi, he said this is difficult to be realized.

Therefore, there will be conflict if there is a business division within the actual construction of the hangar is focused solely for Lion Air aircraft maintenance only. "It would be a conflict. Because they want the business division. In other words, there is a distribution of stock to the Angkasa Pura I, "he explained.

Therefore, Lion Air chose to withdraw its investment from Manado and move it to another place. Even Lion Air plans to move the investment to Malaysia. Malaysia in this regard has been prepared of 2.6 hectares of land for lease to the Lion Air at a rate of U.S. $ 3,600 per month.

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