Lion Air
| Use attributes for filter ! | |
| Parent company | Lion Air Group |
|---|---|
| Commenced operations | 30 June 2000 |
| Bag information | More Lion Air bag information |
| Ceo | Rudy Lumingkewas |
| Subsidiaries | Batik Air |
| Wings Air | |
| Thai Lion Air | |
| Malindo Air | |
| Lion Air Australia | |
| Lion Langkawi | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 905652 |
About Lion Air
PT Lion Mentari Airlines, operating as Lion Air, is an Indonesian low-cost airline. Based in Jakarta, Lion Air is the country's largest privately run airline, the second largest low-cost airline in Southeast Asia after AirAsia and the largest airline of Indonesia.
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... Just months earlier, an almost identical aircraft operated by the Indonesian carrier Lion Air had crashed into the Java Sea on what should have been a routine flight from Jakarta to Pangkal Pinang...
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...Indonesia has lifted a ban on the Boeing 737 Max, more than three years after the Lion Air disaster that saw the loss of all 189 people on board...
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... But two fatal accidents within five months - the Ethiopia Airlines flight out of Addis Ababa and before that a Lion Air jet that came down into the sea off Indonesia - signalled there were serious faults with the aircraft...
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... United Airlines said the woman was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital Earlier this year, a scorpion was filmed crawling out of the overhead luggage rack on a Lion Air flight in Indonesia...
'Boeing was at my father's funeral and I was not'
... The company said in a statement: We continue to offer our deepest sympathies to the families and loved ones of the victims of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 and Lion Air Flight 610 and we are committed to helping those affected by these tragedies...
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... The company, under intensive control in the Wake of two catastrophic accidents, the other one of its planes the 737 Max - the Ethiopian Airlines crash in March, and Lion Air disaster in Indonesia in the past year...
Boeing accused of putting profit before safety by Senators
... In October last year, a Boeing 737 Max operated by Lion Air crashed, killing all 189 people on board...
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...A series of failures led to the crash of a Lion Air flight, which killed 189 people and led to the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max, a report has found...
Boeing 737 Max: Indonesia lifts ban after 2018 Lion Air crash
Indonesia has lifted a ban on the Boeing 737 Max, More Than three years after The Lion Air disaster that saw The Loss of all 189 people on board.
The plane maker saw its best-selling aircraft grounded globally after a deadly crash in March 2019 involving an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max.
On Monday, Ethiopian Airlines said it will resume such flights in February.
The announcements come months after the aircraft returned to service in the US and Europe.
More Than 180 countries now allow the use of the 737 Max, with Australia, Japan, India, Malaysia and Singapore lifting their bans this year.
Indonesia's transport ministry said in a statement that the lifting of the ban would be effective immediately, and that It Follows regulators' checks of changes made to the aircraft's systems.
The ministry also said that airlines must follow airworthiness directives and inspect their planes before they can fly the 737 Max again, adding that government officials would also inspect the planes.
Lion Air , which operated 10 such planes before the ban, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Bbc .
Indonesia's national flag carrier Garuda said it had no plans to reintroduce the plane to its fleet as it focuses on debt restructuring.
The state-controlled firm, which operated just one 737 Max before the plane was grounded, has said it aims to cut its fleet of aircraft from 142 to 66 as part of its turnaround plan.
On 29 October 2018, Lion Air Flight 610 crashed into the Java Sea 13 Minutes after Taking Off from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport , killing all 189 passengers and crew.
Less than five months later, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, a Boeing 737 Max on its way to Kenya, crashed Six Minutes after leaving Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa , killing all 157 people on board.
" We have taken enough time to monitor the design modification work and the More Than 20 months of rigorous rectification Process . . our pilots, engineers, aircraft technicians, Cabin Crew are confident on the safety of the fleet, " Ethiopian Airlines ' chief executive Tewolde Gebremariam said in a statement about resuming 737 Max flights.
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