Indonesia’s largest privately-owned carrier Lion Air plans to place an order for widebodies and wants first deliveries in 2011. Lion plans to order 10-15 widebodies and is interested in Airbus A330-300s and Boeing 777-200ERs.
Airbus A330-300s
The carrier wants first deliveries in 2011 and plans to use the aircraft in the day on busy domestic trunk routes and fly the aircraft at night to destinations in Asia, he says. They aim to make a decision by the first quarter of next year.
The giant Boeing 777-200ER
Indonesian carriers are unable to operate domestically at night because of airport curfews. For example, that Lion Air could operate a widebody at night from Bali Denpasar to Taipei and have passengers arrive in Bali in the morning.
Lion plans to have the widebodies in an all-economy configuration and compete on price. Indonesia has plenty of traffic rights available because at the moment “its only Garuda flying internationally” on longer routes.
In addition, it has five MD-80s but these are used as stand-by aircraft and will be phased out mid next year. Lion has also signed a firm order for 15 ATR 72-500s with the first three aircraft due to arrive in December although an exact date has yet to be set.
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I’m glad to see this.
But actually, I still hope that Garuda Indonesia will be the biggest Airliner in Indonesia.
I hope so.