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Lion Air Group returns six 737s to lessor: report
August 9th 2021
Indonesia's Lion Air Group has returned six 737-800s to lessors, local media has reported, citing comments from a company spokesperson. Read More » The six single aisle planes are four aircraft from Batik Air and two from Lion Air. Flight tracking websites showed the 737s were flown to Alice Springs in central Australia for the lease return. The fleet reductions have taken place at a time Indonesia is fighting a surge in COVID-19 across the country's 17,000 island archipelago. It peaked at 56,757 new recorded infections in mid-July and now is sitting at about 40,000 a day. Lion Air Group's carriers, Batik Air, Lion Air and Wings Air in Indonesia, Malindo Air in Malaysia and Thai Lion in Thailand, recently stood down about 8,000 of their 23,000 strong workforce. The group is operating between 10% and 15% of its former daily capacity.
