Un Boeing 737-800 finit son atterrissage en mer (photo) | Le Phare - Pale Moon. Pas de victimes (45 blessés tout de même), mais sans doute un grosse peur pour les 101 passagers (en fait il y en aurait eu plus, on a parlé de 130 et même de 150) d'un Boeing 737-800 (tout neuf ou presque mis en ligne en 2012) de la cie indonésienne low cost Lion Air (100 appareils, 800 pilotes dont 15 Français, écrivait Le Monde le 4 février dernier) qui a raté son atterrissage à l'aéroport Denpasar de Bali. L'avion a terminé sa course en mer avant de se casser en deux. Aucune victime, mais un bain imprévu dès l'arrivée dans ce "paradis tropical" qui attire des vacanciers du monde entier. Lion Air, pas réputée pour sa sécurité, vient de commander 234 Airbus A320, mais elle est interdite de vol en Europe et aux USA. Elle a été sanctionnée en janvier 2012 : plusieurs de ses pilotes avaient été arrêtés en possession de méthamphétamine.
Mise à jour dimanche. Cette entrée a été publiée dans Actualité, Aviation, Photo. Vous pouvez la mettre en favoris avec ce permalien. Lion Air appeals for no lawsuits. Lion Air has appealed to passengers of a flight that crash landed in the sea near Ngurah Rai Airport in Denpasar, Bali, recently not to file lawsuits against the company. The appeal was made at a meeting in Bandung on Tuesday between both parties concerning the compensation of Rp 55 million ($5,657) offered by the Lion Air management to each passenger of the ill-fated airplane. The Lion Air airplane carrying 101 passengers and seven crew members crashed on April 13. All passengers and cabin crew survived but 52 of them were hospitalized in various Bali hospitals.
Those who accepted compensation were required to sign an agreement that contained 12 clauses, one being to not file suit against the company for the accident. Lion Air operations director Daniel Putut said the compensation offered was greater than that regulated under a 2011 transportation ministerial decree on airline liabilities. Of the 28 passengers present at the meeting in Bandung, three rejected the offer. Lion Air - We Make People Fly - Pale Moon. NEWSMAKER - Lion Air CEO Rusdi Kirana dreams of roofs and runways | Reuters - Pale Moon. By Tim Hepher and Neil Chatterjee SINGAPORE/JAKARTA Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:45am IST SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Rusdi Kirana has dropped a record $22 billion on the table for Boeing jets and rubbed shoulders with President Barack Obama, but that's not even dinner conversation for the boss of Indonesia's Lion Air, who is obsessed with a far more modest project. The 49-year-old former typewriter salesman, who wowed the Singapore Airshow by finalizing the record order on Tuesday, is more anxious to discuss a plan to build homes for 4,000 workers that combines a paternalistic flair with hard airline economics.
"People can only afford to get a house that is too far away and then they have to pay for transport and there is a big problem in Indonesia with infrastructure," Kirana says. "I am building new offices with houses next door. Kirana is still shopping for aircraft and will be back at Asia's biggest aerospace show on Wednesday to pick up two Hawker Beechcraft business jets. Obama presides over sale of Boeing 737s to Lion Air | The Jakarta Post - Pale Moon. Lion Air, championne du low cost - Pale Moon. LE MONDE ECONOMIE | • Mis à jour le | Par Bruno Philip Un regard espiègle, une moustache fournie, une attitude décontractée : Rusdi Kirana, le patron de Lion Air, la compagnie aérienne indonésienne low cost, n'a pas l'allure type d'un homme d'affaires à qui tout a réussi. Né dans la province du Fujian, au sud de la Chine, ce Sino-Indonésien a connu une ascension fulgurante, qu'il retrace avec plaisir, installé dans une salle VIP de l'aéroport de Djakarta, entouré de ses adjoints.
Propriétaire d'une agence de voyages à Djakarta, il comprend, au tournant des années 2000, que son activité ne résistera pas à l'arrivée d'Internet dans les foyers indonésiens. "Je me suis dit que la possibilité d'acheter des billets en ligne allait rapidement affecter mon business. Alors, j'ai décidé de créer une compagnie d'aviation", explique-t-il comme si cela allait de soi.
Indonésie: Lion Air va commander 200 Airbus A320 | Air Journal - Pale Moon. Indonesia's Lion Air poised to roar ahead in Southeast Asia's crowded low cost airline market - Life. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Indonesia's top discount carrier, which catapulted into the global aviation spotlight with record deals to buy Airbus and Boeing planes, is taking the battle for Asia's budget-minded travellers to the backyard of the airline that helped pioneer low cost flights in the region. Lion Air, hardly known beyond Indonesia until giving Boeing and Airbus their biggest orders ever, made its first foray outside its home market with the launch Friday of Malindo Air in Malaysia, the base of AirAsia, which after a decade of rapid growth dominates cheap travel in the region.
Lion Air inked a $24 billion deal this week to buy 234 Airbus planes, the biggest order ever for the French aircraft maker. It also gave Boeing its largest-ever order when it finalized a deal for 230 planes last year. The planes will be delivered from 2014 through to 2026. He said Lion expects to have ordered 1,000 planes in the next few years. The plans add up to a looming dogfight with AirAsia.