Government Involves Lion Air To Serve Hajj Flights 2025
JAKARTA - The Indonesian government involves Lion Air to participate in serving the 2025 Hajj flight. Lion Air itself is the first time it has been involved in Hajj flights in Indonesia, because since 2009 it has only served Umrah.
Lion Air Group Operations Director, Daniel Putut Kuncoro Adi said his party had prepared 10 aircraft for Hajj flights, and three reserve aircraft.
"Untuk kesiapan pesawat untuk masing-masing embarkasi dan debarkasi dengan rincian rencana operasional, kami siap 100 persen dengan total pesawat yang kami siapkan adalah 10 pesawat, dan sejumlah krub, katanya dalam rapat suruim (RDP) dengan Komisi VIII DPR RI, dikutip Jumat, 3 Januari.
Daniel also said that all aircraft prepared for the 2025 Hajj flight transportation are no more than 10 years old.
In addition, he continued, all aircraft that will be used for Hajj flights are also being treated at aircraft maintenance facilities or Maintenance, Repair, Overhaul (MRO) owned by Lion Air Group in Batam, Riau Islands.
At the latest, the age of the plane is in 2014, so it's only been 10 years. Others are even 2 years old. And we don't all rent, we have our own plane. We also prepared 3 planes for backup," said Daniel.
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Although he has only been involved in Indonesian Hajj flight transportation, Daniel said Lion Air actually has experience for 13 years serving Hajj flights.
He said Lion Air had leased its planes to Saudi Arabian airlines, namely Flynas to serve Hajj flights from countries in Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and other Asian countries.
"Since we have a wide-body aircraft, the Boeing 747-400 aircraft type with two planes, and 2009 we serve Indonesian Umrah pilgrims. And after 2 years of running, in 2011, we have won the trust of one of the airlines in Saudi, namely Flynas to rent out our planes to help with Hajj flights," he said.