Lion Air Group's international flights are moving to Terminal 2F on December 16 at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta. The switch from Terminal 3 is part of a capacity balancing programme and will see all of the group's aircraft movements in the Indonesian capital operate through the Terminal 2 complex.
The group's airlines include Lion Air, Batik Air, Batik Air Malaysia (formerly known as Malindo Air), and Thai Lion Air. According to Soekarno-Hatta Airport executive general manager Dwi Ananda Wicaksana, there are around 32 Lion Air Group international arrivals and departures at the airport every day, handling over 6,100 passengers.
Following the switch, daily aircraft movements at Terminal 3 will decrease by 19% and daily passenger foot traffic will drop by 9.8%. Terminal 3 handles Garuda Indonesia Group airlines, Indonesia AirAsia, and all other foreign carriers, while Terminal 2 will become the exclusive domain of Lion Air Group airlines. Terminal 1 will continue to look after domestic Indonesia AirAsia, NAM Air, Sriwijaya Air, and Super Air Jet services.
Lion Air and Batik Air are the top two airlines at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta in terms of both seat capacity and flight frequencies, the duo enjoying a 44%-plus market share on both counts, the ch-aviation capacities module shows. While the bulk of the capacity and frequencies are on domestic flights (Batik Air domestic flights operate from Jakarta's Terminal 2D and Lion Air domestic flights operate from Terminal 2E), Batik Air also flies to Singapore Changi, Kuala Lumpur International, Bangkok Don Mueang, Penang, Perth International, Melbourne Tullamarine, and Sydney Kingsford Smith from Jakarta Seokarno-Hatta, while Lion Air flies to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Wuhan, Fuzhou, Madinah, and Jeddah International from the Indonesian capital. In addition, Thai Lion Air connects Jakarta to Bangkok Don Mueang and Batik Air Malaysia connects the city to Kuala Lumpur.
