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I thought they wanted to avoid the negativity about the safety of Lion Air by using the name Malindo instead of Malaysia Lion. And now they come up with Thai Lion.

May be Thai Lion will be a true LCC, not a hybrid like Malindo Air :)

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I thought they wanted to avoid the negativity about the safety of Lion Air by using the name Malindo instead of Malaysia Lion. And now they come up with Thai Lion.

 

Because ThaiIndo Air is such a stupid name :D

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LION AIR AKAN BUKA CABANG DI THAILAND

22.28 Lion Air

 

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(22/5/2013) Setelah sukses mendirikan anak perusahaan di Malaysia, yaitu Malindo Air, maskapai penerbangan Lion Air dikabarkan akan melebarkan sayapnya di Thailand. Maskapai yang dibuka di negeri gajah putih tersebut akan diberi nama Thai Lion Air.

 

Bangkok Post melaporkan bahwa maskapai penerbangan yang berbasis di Jakarta ini telah melakukan perekrutan pilot, pramugari, dan staf darat untuk Thai Lion Air.

 

Thai Lion Air akan memulai operasinya dengan enam pesawat Boeing 737-800 dan menggunakan Don Mueang Airport di Bangkok sebagai markasnya.

 

Direktur Jenderal Departemen Penerbangan Sipil Thailand, Woradej Harnprasert, telah mengkonfirmasi bahwa Lion Air akan meluncurkan anak perusahaan di Thailand, meskipun departemennya hingga kini belum menerima proposal untuk penerbitan Air Operator Certificate (AOC).

 

Pendirian Thai Lion Air merupakan gabungan antara Lion Air dengan perusahaan lokal Thailand. Sesuai dengan peraturan yang berlaku di Thailand, perusahaan lokal harus memiliki minimal 51 persen saham.

 

Meskipun demikian, identitas perusahaan asal Thailand ini masih menjadi misteri.

 

Sebuah laporan mengatakan bahwa Phuket Airlines yang merupakan operator penerbangan berjadwal domestik dan internasional di Thailand hampir satu dekade lalu menjadi investornya.

 

Tapi, Woradej mematahkan kemungkinan tersebut dan mengatakan bahwa Phuket Airlines yang didirikan oleh pebisnis dan mantan senat Vikrom Aisiri, awalnya adalah untuk layanan charter.

 

Masuknya Lion Air ke Thailand akan semakin memperketat persaingan yang sudah sangat rapat. Lion Air akan berkompetisi dengan pemain kuat seperti Thai AirAsia, Nok Air, dan Orient Thai yang banyak mengurangi penerbangan berjadwal dalam dua tahun terakhir.

 

"Masuknya Lion Air sangat baik untuk kesehatan kompetisi, memberikan penumpang lebih banyak pilihan," ujar Woradej, dengan catatan bahwa langit Thailand terbuka untuk maskapai sepanjang mengikuti regulasi yang berlaku.

 

Thai Lion Air berencana mengoperasikan penerbangan dari Thailand ke berbagai negara tetangga.

 

Sebelumnya, Lion Air telah berencana membuka anak perusahaan di Thailand sejak tahun 2007. Maskapai ini mempertimbangkan untuk menggandeng operator lokal, On-Two-Go, maskapai penerbangan murah bentukan Orient Thai yang telah mati atau bekerjasama dengan maskapai lain yang mempunyai izin operasi di Thailand.

 

Pada bulan Maret, Chief Executive Lion Air Rusdi Kirana mengatakan bahwa pihaknya berencana membangun maskapai baru di Thailand dan Australia.

 

Lion Air juga dilaporkan telah mengakuisisi 49 persen saham maskapai asal Australia dan akan menempatkan enam pesawat di negara tersebut.

 

Rusdi juga mengatakan bahwa perusahaannya akan membuka cabang di Myanmar, Vietnam, Bangladesh, dan Filipina untuk mengembangkan operasinya, terutama untuk menyerap ratusan pesawat yang telah dipesan.

 

Pada Februari 2012, Lion Air memesan 29 Boeing 737-900ER dan 201 Boeing 737 MAX senilai US$ 22,4 miliar, menjadi sebuah pesanan tunggal terbesar dalam sejarah Boeing, baik dari jumlah pesawat maupun nilai uang dari pesanan tersebut.

 

Pada bulan Maret, Lion Air kembali menggemparkan dunai dengan memesan 234 pesawat Airbus A320 dengan nilai US$ 24 miliar.

 

Rusdi mengatakan bahwa perusahaan ingin memiliki hingga 1.000 pesawat dalam waktu 10 tahun.

 

Lion Air pada tahun ini baru saja meluncurkan dua anak perusahaan baru, yaitu Malindo Air di Malaysia dan Batik Air sebagai maskapai penerbangan premium di Indonesia.

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If ever they do exclusivity deals,

Singha beer for the Lion airlines

Tiger beer for Tiger

For Air Asia, water only (air)

:lol:

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May be Thai Lion will be a true LCC, not a hybrid like Malindo Air :)

 

 

Because ThaiIndo Air is such a stupid name :D

I prefer if they stick to Malaysia Lion. One single branding, one website ala AirAsia. Make the effort to integrate and synergize. But maybe you're right. Because of the different business model

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Because ThaiIndo Air is such a stupid name :D

'Indoland Air' would probably be the same :D but I think it is not a good idea to hv different name based branding. Most probably, Lion Air logo will be used for the Thai venture to synchronise visual branding instead. Edited by Alif A. F.

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Because ThaiIndo Air is such a stupid name :D

 

:D

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Lion ready to expand into

Thailand this year

Nurfika Osman, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Business | Wed, August 21 2013, 11:37 AM

The country’s largest private airline, Lion Air, is set to strengthen its foothold in Southeast Asia’s aviation market by establishing Thai Lion in Thailand by the end of this year.

 

The group CEO Rusdi Kirana said that the company is going to collaborate with a local airline in Thailand.

 

“We expect to launch Thai Lion at the end of this year and we are preparing 70 to 80 aircraft for the operation,” Rusdi said in Jakarta on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 2nd Congress of Indonesian Diaspora.

 

He said that the firm plans to officially announce the new Bangkok-based airline in the next month or two.

 

Thai Lion will likely use the narrow body jet liner Boeing B737-900 Extended Range (ERs) and the B737-800 Next Generation (NGs) aircraft.

 

“We are going to strengthen our networks in Thailand, China and Japan with the new airline. Some routes that we will provide during the first phase of the operations are Bangkok–Jakarta, Bangkok–Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok–Chiang Mai,” he said.

 

To help support its expansion, he said that the group secured loans from banks in the US and Europe.

 

However, he refused to elaborate further on how much the firm has invested for its new business in Thailand.

 

Thailand was one of Indonesia’s most important markets for tourism and business investment. According to the Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry’s information center data, The number of Thai tourists visiting the country grew by 16.15 percent during January–May 2013 to 40,668 from 35,013 in the same period last year.

 

Bilateral agreement between the two countries allow aircraft from each nation to fly as many as 70 times a week.

 

The group also wants to capture the potential air travel market in Myanmar and Australia in 2014.

 

Before expanding its business in Bangkok, the company had collaborated with Malaysia’s National Aerospace and Defence Industries (NADI) by setting up Malindo Airways.

 

The carrier, whose name was derived from the names of respective countries: Malaysia and Indonesia, was launched in mid March this year and it currently serves domestic routes in Malaysia and international routes from Malaysia to Dhaka, Bangladesh and Pekanbaru, Indonesia with other destinations planned including China, Vietnam, India, Cambodia and other Indonesian cities.

 

Malindo currently operates four B737-900 ERs and two Avions de Transport Régional ATR 72-600s.

 

In addition, he said the group aims to make Hang Nadim Airport in Batam, Riau Islands as its new hub in a bid to get closer to destinations in Asia and the Middle East.

 

They plan to start providing international flight services from Batam to destinations in the Middle East, China and Thailand next year.

 

“We also chose Batam because the airport in Cengkareng [soekarno-Hatta International Airport] is overcrowded. We need a new hub to accommodate the international traffic,” he went on.

 

Last week, the group announced that it wanted to expand its networks by entering smaller cities across the country to tap into the high potential of the air travel market from destinations with shorter runways such as Mentawai (West Sumatra), Banda Neira (Maluku), and Jailolo (North Maluku).

 

They want to purchase 50 units of sub-20 N219 aircraft from the state run aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) with an option to buy another 50.

 

Each N219 will cost around US$4.5 million to 5.5 million.

 

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/08/21/lion-ready-expand-thailand-year.html

 

The website : http://www.lionair.co.th/

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Indonesia’s Lion Air Group is aiming to launch a new affiliate in Thailand by the end of 2013 with an initial fleet of two 737-900ERs based at Bangkok Don Mueang Airport. The new carrier, Thai Lion, will follow the low-cost model and, unlike Lion’s Malaysian subsidiary Malindo, provide an all-economy no-frill service.
Thai Lion will initially serve two international routes – Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta – and Thailand’s second largest domestic route, Bangkok-Chiang Mai. With Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta, Thai Lion will be able to leverage the hubs of its sister carriers.
The new carrier will compete primarily against Thailand’s two existing LCCs, Thai AirAsia and Thai Airways' low-cost affiliate Nok Air. Both are based at Don Mueang and serve Chiang Mai while AirAsia is the market leader between Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur and also serves Bangkok-Jakarta.
Thai Lion is currently in the process of being certified by Thai authorities. The carrier has been allocated two of the six 737-900ERs the Lion Air Group is slated to receive in 4Q2013. Thai Lion aims to begin revenue flights by the end of the year, pending regulatory approval.
Lion is expected to own 49% of the new carrier, following the ownership structure at Malindo, which launched services in Mar-2013 with a majority 51% stake held by Malaysian company NADI. Lion has not yet disclosed its partner in Thailand. The partner has only been privately identified in applications with Thai authorities and will be formally revealed if the carrier succeeds at securing an air operator's certificate.

 

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First Thai Lion Air B737-9GPER HS-LTI is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bfiguy/10092647184/in/photostream/

 

The website is also up: http://www.lionair.co.th/ I wonder why would Thai government opposed to set up of Thai Tiger Air previously, but not Thai Lion Air.

 

On a bright note, I bet that there would be a lot of ex JetAsia Airways, Thai Sky Airlines, Phuket Air, R Airlines, City Airways, Crystal Thai Airlines, Happy Air, P C Air, Solar Air, Sunny Airways, U Airlines ex/ current crews hopping over...... :p

Edited by JuliusWong

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Bangkok Don Mueang – Chiang Mai

 

JT8500 DMK0830 – 0945CNX 739 D

 

JT8502 DMK1100 – 1215CNX 739 D

 

JT8506 DMK1505 – 1620CNX 739 D

JT8501 CNX1030 – 1145DMK 739 D

 

JT8503 CNX1300 – 1415DMK 739 D

 

JT8507 CNX1705 – 1820DMK 739 D

Bangkok Don Mueang – Jakarta

 

JT8000 DMK1235 – 1610CGK 739 D

 

JT8002 DMK1920 – 2255CGK 739 D

JT8001 CGK0630 – 1005DMK 739 D

 

JT8003 CGK1700 – 2035DMK 739 D

Bangkok Don Mueang – Kuala Lumpur

 

JT8200 DMK2125 – 0035+1KUL 739 D

 

JT8201 KUL0630 – 0740DMK 739 D

 

Source: Airline Route

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Thai Lion Air will start KUL. Their flight is bookable through Malindo's website. Early morning departure from KUL, and late night arrival from Bangkok Don Mueang

Bookable via Thai Lionair (seems to be defunct now) and Indo Lionair website (fares slightly cheaper than former) at least 2 weeks ago. I am now having problem with Malindo website to dummy book the said route.

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yeap

for at least 6 hours

 

That will be an exchange of crews then, but certainly won't share with OD's crews. How's the crews' uniforms like?

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