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Lion Air to operate domestic widebody services

7 Jun 2015 20:05:07

atwonline.com

Indonesian low-cost carrier (LCC) Lion Air has said it will use its new twin-aisle Airbus A330-300s, due to be delivered later this year, for domestic schedules rather than long-haul.


"We will use these widebody aircraft for our domestic flights, especially on busy flight routes like Jakarta-Medan, Jakarta-Surabaya, and Jakarta-Makassar," Lion Air operations director Daniel Kuncoro Putu Adi said.


Adi said the use of the new widebodies would enable Lion to reduce the flight frequency on the existing routes. For example the 22 existing flights from Medan would be cut significantly, he said.


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