Lion Air Group

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PT Lion Group
Lion Air Group
Company type Private
Industry Airline
Founded15 November 1999;25 years ago (1999-11-15)
Headquarters
Lion Air Tower, Jakarta
,
Indonesia
Key people
  • Rusdi Kirana (Owner)
  • Kusnan Kirana (Owner)
  • Daniel Putut (President Director CEO)
Subsidiaries Airlines:

Other services:

  • Batam Aero Technic
  • Lion Bizjet
  • Lion Hotel & Plaza
  • Lion Parcel
Website

PT Lion Group, dba Lion Air Group, is a privately owned, airline holding company, based in Indonesia. [1] The group consists of several airlines from Southeast Asia, currently Lion Air, Wings Air, Batik Air, Batik Air Malaysia, Thai Lion Air, and Super Air Jet. The Lion Air Group primarily competes with the Malaysian-based low-cost carrier AirAsia, Vietnamese-based low-cost carrier VietJet Air, and domestic competitor and national airline Garuda Indonesia.

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History

The airline group is founded on the success of Lion Air, which was founded in 1999. With the growth of aviation and travel within Indonesia, Lion Air founded Wings Air in 2003, a regional carrier wholly owned by Lion Air.

Regional expansion

With the expansion of regional rival AirAsia into the Indonesian aviation market, the Lion Group established Malindo Air in 2012, to compete with AirAsia in the Malaysian aviation market. [2] The airline's name derived from a combination of the countries Malaysia and Indonesia.

Local competition from national airline Garuda Indonesia also arose in 2012, as Garuda announced intentions to form an off-shoot of its Citilink brand into its own low-cost carrier. Further intentions to expand Citilink were announced, such that it could compete with Lion Air in the domestic low-cost travel market. [3] In response, Lion Group announced a full-service competitor to Garuda Indonesia in the form of Batik Air. [4] [5]

To further expand into the region, Lion Air announced its intention to launch Thai Lion Air, based in Bangkok, Thailand. This would allow the group to further encroach on AirAsia's market share, as well as compete with local low-cost carrier Nok Air. [6] [7]

In 2017, the Lion Air Group managed to surpass 50% market share domestically for the first time. [8]

In 2021, after the launch of Super Air Jet, rumors arose that the airline belonged to Lion Air Group after the airline was headed by Ari Azhari, a former General Manager of Services for Lion Air Group. The airline however rejected any claims of formal ties with Lion Air and its subsidiaries. [9] [10] [11]

Operations

The Lion Air Group are based in three different countries in Southeast Asia and have several operations, most of which are airlines.

A Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER Spijkers-3.jpg
A Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali, Indonesia
A Wings Air ATR 72-500 Wings Air ATR ATR-72-500 (ATR-72-212A) Spijkers-1.jpg
A Wings Air ATR 72–500
A Batik Air Airbus A320 at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia PK-LAY (24303537918).jpg
A Batik Air Airbus A320 at Juanda International Airport in Surabaya, Indonesia
Super Air Jet Airbus A320-200 at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Super Air Jet A320 at Soekarno-Hatta Airport.jpg
Super Air Jet Airbus A320-200 at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport
Malindo Air Boeing 737-800 at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Banten 9M-LCF at CGK.jpg
Malindo Air Boeing 737-800 at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Banten
A Thai Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER HS-LTQ.jpg
A Thai Lion Air Boeing 737-900ER
CountryCompanyService
Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Lion Air Low-cost carrier
Wings Air Regional airline
Batik Air Full-service airline
Super Air Jet Ultra low-cost carrier
Lion Bizjet Business jet charter
Lion Parcel Courier/Freight transport
Lion Hotel & Plaza Hospitality
Flag of Malaysia 23px.svg  Malaysia Batik Air Malaysia Hybrid/medium service airline
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand Thai Lion Air Low-cost carrier
Sources: [12] [13]

Operators and fleet

Lion Air Group Fleet [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19]
AircraftIn ServiceOperator
Airbus A320-200 108 Batik Air
Super Air Jet
Airbus A320neo 1 Batik Air
Airbus A330-300 11 Batik Air Malaysia
Lion Air
Airbus A330-900 8 Lion Air
Airbus Helicopters EC135 1Lion Bizjet
ATR 72-500 20 Wings Air
ATR 72-600 59 Wings Air
Boeing 737-800 80 Batik Air
Batik Air Malaysia
Lion Air
Thai Lion Air
Boeing 737-900ER 67 Lion Air
Thai Lion Air
Boeing 737 MAX 8 17 Batik Air Malaysia
Boeing 737 MAX 9 4 Lion Air
Hawker Beechcraft 900XP 2Lion Bizjet

Subsidiary company

PT Lion Express
Lion Parcel
Industry Courier
Founded Jakarta
(2013;12 years ago (2013))
Founders Rusdi Kirana
Headquarters Indonesia
Key people
Farian Kirana (Chief Executive Officer)
Number of employees
Increase2.svg 1.037 (2020)
Parent Lion Air
Website lionparcel.com

Lion Parcel

PT. Lion Express also known as Lion Parcel is a subsidiary company of Lion Air Group, is the logistic company that serves nationwide and Asia. Their services is door-to-door delivery enhanced with Innovation and Technology. [20]

Environmental record

Lion Parcel has taken measures to control their environmental effect by use of electric vehicles produced by GESITS (PT Wika Industri Manufaktur). Lion Parcel changed vehicles in certain delivery fleets in order to use electric vehicles. Certain new vehicles use electricity, to which Lion Parcel hopes to reduce air pollution in Indonesia and carbon emission produced by conventional vehicle. With this initiative, they become the first logistic company in Indonesia that has implement the use of electric vehicles. [21] [22] [23]

Awards

  • Gold Predicate from Indonesian Contact Center Association (ICCA) during The Best Contact Center Indonesia 2021'2 event for category "The Best Digital Media" [24]
  • Impactful Digital Marketing Campaign of The Year for JAGOPACK, Marketeers Editor's Choice Award 2021. [25]
  • Industry Marketing Champion 2021 for the Logistics Sector, Marketeer of the Year 2021, MARKPLUS, INC. [26]

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