TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Indonesia's largest private airline Lion Air is expanding its business by introducing a new flight route available five times a week from Bali’s Ngurah Rai airport to China’s Binhai Tianjin International Airport.
Lion Air corporate communications strategic Danang M. Prihantoro said the initial flights from Denpasar to Tianjin would be available every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. Meanwhile, flights from Tianjin to Denpasar will be on every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
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“The success in introducing this international route makes us the first and only airline that facilitates a non-stop round-trip flight from Bali to Tianjin,” said Danang on Monday, July 23.
Lion Air is set to mobilize its Boeing 737-900ER (215 economy class seats), Boeing 737-800NG (189 economy class seats), and the Boeing 737 MAX 8 (189 economy class seats).
Lion Air’s chartered flight from Denpasar, Bali, to Tianjin, China, was introduced at the end of last week using a Boeing 737 MAX 8 unit that departed from Ngurah Rai Airport at 16:35 Indonesia Central Time (WITA) and landed in Tianjin on 00:22 local time.
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