Lion Air will launch daily Surabaya-Palembang, Palembang-Medan, and Yogyakarta-Pekanbaru services on 10 May.
The low-cost carrier will deploy on Boeing 737s on the three routes.
FlightGlobal schedules data shows the airline will compete with Citilink on the Surabaya-Palembang and Yogyakarta-Pekanbaru routes. It will also compete with Garuda Indonesia and Indonesia AirAsia on the Palembang-Medan route.
Source: Cirium Dashboard
Japan Airlines reported an increase in its second-quarter earnings, amid an uplift in revenue across its business units and despite a rise in operating costs.
HAECO and Comac have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand airframe, engine and component MRO services.
ANA Holdings has maintained its full-year earnings forecast amid strong inbound and domestic passenger travel demand, even as its half-year profit slipped.
The US Department of Transportation (DOT) has tentatively awarded 10 hotly contested slots for long-distance domestic flights out of Ronald Reagan National airport in Washington, DC.
British Airways has pushed back its planned return to Kuala Lumpur until April as part of a trimming of its winter long-haul flight programme due to delivery delays particularly impacting its Rolls-Royce Trent 1000-powered Boeing 787s.
Delta Air Lines plans next summer to resume flights from Los Angeles to Shanghai and to launch a route from Minneapolis to Copenhagen, part of the airline’s broader network shuffle.
