Super Air Jet: Lion Air's Suspicious New Airline

Maybe it’s a ULCC, not LCC.

Maybe they could pay James Hogan for some advice.

Same group also operates Malindo Air in Malaysia (value based airline, not a clear LCC)... and if I remember correctly, they had a subsidiary in Cambodia too .... will have to double check.

Malindo was quite good actually, I would seek them out vs Air Asia or Lion Air
The management and staff is all based In Malaysia

It’s an ultra-low cost airline, unlike Lion Air, which is a low cost.

I always thought that someday an airline may have flight attendant uniforms which resemble those use on Australian flights that land in Antarctica, a military style jumpsuit.

Maybe have 2 style, a military style jumpsuit and a Singapore Airlines style sarong kebeya? If a traditional FA uniform, I prefer dark blue as in Lufthansa or British Airways and include a hat.

So a very big airline group with differentiated brands catering to different segments decides to start another airline to cater for an untapped segment (i.e. ultra low cost travellers).

In business this is called full market coverage. How you could misconstrue this basic business decision as "suspicious" is beyond me (a badly chosen adjective, perhaps?). AirFrance created the doomed 'Joon' to cater for millennials. Are we to regard that as "suspicious"? Ditto IAG with 'Level' and 'Vueling'.

Yes, the obvious explanation is truly boring as **** . But that's the nature of most business decisions - unless marketing decides to go all razzmatazz! So no need to spice a boring business decision as something malevolent(!) because there's nothing even remotely "suspicious" in it. There's quite enough fake news doing the rounds already.

Please (un)Lucky; don't go there when saying "Lion Air has had its fair share of safety issues, including most recently the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX" when we all know Boing was at fault for that...

Perhaps they could differentiate themselves from Lionair by not over running wet runways and totaling brand new aircraft!

Reasons for this airline: some people said that Lionair tried to ask aircraft owners for reductions of rents by half. Some owners refused so the founders of Lionair create this airline with the aircraft where they were able to get reduced rents. And they would put Lionair in receivership in the next months.

Spot on regarding Lion Air’s safety issues.

My guess, is that just like China Eastern, Lion AIr is launching a new airline to operate C919 and MC21s.

Co Founder Lion Air "Super Air Jet" is very genius, he or team have differentiated think, he presented the SAJ when Pandemic become dragging for people to travel right now. Since SAJ Team use Safety is priority and Safety Management on Annex- 19, and had already acknowledged by ICAO, IATA and State DGCA, The last previous accident made as their lesson learning to the future and management included the whole crew member should have to enter Aviation Safety Training before joining SAJ (CASO Training), the course where contents full Safety Issue in day to day flight operations in the Aviation Industry.

Arise Safety Culture internally, depth agree by any Aviation Safety Training.

You are being unfair when you included and highlighted the B737Max crash as part of Lion Air's safety issues. When it is clearly the error of the manufacturer.

Another subsidiary is based in Thailand, Thai Lion Air

Re Frank K: It is NOT unfair to include and highlight the 737MAX crash as part of Lion Air's safety issues. In fact, that crash put a spotlight on, and reinforced their horrific safety culture. Read the official final accident report for their MAX crash. There is no reputable airline in the world that would have flown a broken airplane around for DAYS with the stick shaker (stall warning) going off during the flights. And for the crew to feel compelled to continue taking the planes on more flights, and continue that flight, rather than return to the departure airport, in order to get paid. They didn't write it up in the aircraft logbook. Some didn't give a turnover to the next crew about the faults the aircraft was having. Their engineers took a picture of the repair to prove they'd done it....and then authorities discovered they'd lied about when the picture was taken and of what. All of this is available to read in the final accident report. Any reputable airline with a reasonable safety culture would have grounded that aircraft the first time it happened and not flown it again until it was repaired. Read it. Its public.
https://www.docdroid.net/rHGolQa/jt610-pk-lqp-final-report-pdf