LION EYES MORE JETS FOR GROWING ASEAN MARKET
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Lion Air may add more jets to recent plane orders in order to keep pace with Southeast Asia’s transportation growth as a US analyst said the airline may place a multi-billion-dollar order with Europe’s Airbus.
Lion Air co-founder and chief executive Rusdi Kirana said on Tuesday that Southeast Asia’s double-digit increase in air travel demand, spurred by economic growth and rising incomes, was set to continue.
“We think that in the next decade we will need a lot of aircraft,” he told Reuters in a telephone interview. “The market is growing very fast. We are looking, but it depends on pricing and many other factors. We are talking, but we have not made any decisions.”
US aerospace analyst Scott Hamilton said, however, that Lion Air was poised to order up to 100 Airbus jets, breaking Boeing’s dominance at Indonesia’s largest domestic airline.
26/09/2012 : Tim Hepher / Reuters.
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