Lion Air is one of the airlines with the largest orders for Boeing 737 aircraft in the world. As reported by Quartz (November 15, 2018), the airline with the lion logo has ordered 201 units of the 737 MAX series. This is the third largest order after Southwest Airlines (280 units) and flydubai (251 units).
By the end of October 2018, Boeing had received orders for 4,783 units of the 737 MAX series, with 241 units already delivered. According to a global aviation data analytics firm, Lion Air had received 13 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. One of these crashed into the Java Sea after a few minutes of flight in October 2018.
Currently, the Indonesian airlines operating Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft are Lion Air (10 units) and Garuda Indonesia (1 unit). Following the crash of Ethiopian Airlines ET302, several countries, including Indonesia, have temporarily banned Boeing 737 MAX 8 flights.
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