{"id":21268,"date":"2013-03-19T06:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/lion-air-lines-up-for-australia-launch-2\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T06:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T06:28:00","slug":"lion-air-lines-up-for-australia-launch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/lion-air-lines-up-for-australia-launch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion Air lines up for Australia launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hvyMt4dxl-8\/UUgFVcToTmI\/AAAAAAAAeRY\/rujWyh-28js\/s1600\/Lion+air+airbus.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hvyMt4dxl-8\/UUgFVcToTmI\/AAAAAAAAeRY\/rujWyh-28js\/s400\/Lion+air+airbus.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Lion Air placed a firm order with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationtoday.com\/search\/?query=Airbus\" target=\"_top\">Airbus<\/a> for 234 A320 family aircraft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Indonesia&#8217;s low cost carrier Lion Air has sent a strong signal that it intends to be a major force in Asia&#8217;s skies. <\/p>\n<p>The airline has placed an order with Airbus for a record 234 planes worth US$24bn. <\/p>\n<p>The order trumps last year&#8217;s record order for 230 Boeing planes &#8211; also from Lion Air. <\/p>\n<p>The two orders, once fulfilled, would put the airline in the world&#8217;s  top 10 by number of aircraft, although Lion Air is banned from flying  within both the 27-nation European Union and the US over fears that its  safety standards are not up to scratch. <\/p>\n<p>The planes are all in the A320 family of planes and the first are due for delivery in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Lion Air recently confirmed plans to launch Lion Air Australia and Lion Air Thailand subsidiaries. <\/p>\n<p>The airline has reportedly reached an agreement to acquire 49% of an  unnamed Australian company and base six aircraft in Australia.  <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lion Air placed a firm order with Airbus for 234 A320 family aircraft Indonesia&#8217;s low cost carrier Lion Air has sent a strong signal that it intends to be a major force in Asia&#8217;s skies. The airline has placed an order with Airbus for a record 234 planes worth US$24bn. The order trumps last year&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}