LION AIR:
"Human error has been the biggest source of air accidents in Indonesia. According to the National Committee for Transportation Safety,
52 percent of all aircraft accidents between 2007 and 2011 were caused by human error."
" Lion Air is not only FAA and E.U. blacklisted, but one of the least on-time and most-dangerous airlines in the region.
First and foremost, LionAir (along with many other Indonesian carriers) is on the list of airlines banned in the European Union due to safety concerns. This list is exactly what it sounds like—a blacklist. Most of the airlines on the EU blacklist are located in the African continent, apart from a few former Soviet bloc countries, North Korea, and, of course, Indonesia. The FAA maintains an equivalent blacklist watchlist (thank you Brett for the correction), which lists carriers which fall under category 2 or higher of the FAA’s International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) Program (ie. countries audited as not meeting ICAO standards). Lion Air is on this watchlist due to its location in Indonesia as well.
Secondly, Lion Air has grounded 13 of its aircraft for reserve use due to sanctions from the transport minitry caused by poor OTP (on-time performance). According to the Jakarta Post, the Indonesian transportation ministry recorded that Lion Air’s OTP was the worst of those surveyed by 66.45% in an assessment conducted from January to April 2011 at 24 airports nationwide. If you think isolation of this figure is unfair to Lion, consider that Lion Air’s close competitor Garuda managed an 86.9% OTP within the same period.
Any red flags yet? Let’s add another log to the fire.
Lion Air Flight 538 crashed at Adi Sumarmo Airport in Surakarta, killing 25 people.
Lion Air has crashed 5 aircraft since operations began 12 years ago in 1999, including a 737-200 in 2002, an MD-82 in 2006, a 737-400 in 2006, a 737-400 in 2010 and a fatal MD-82 crash in 2004 which killed 25 people. Aviation Herald has 19 incidents on record for Lion Air, including those already mentioned. Using the crash statistics alone, the airline has encountered an average of one crash every 2 years, which by those stats indicates Lion Air is due for another incident sometime in 2012. Let’s hope they’ve learned a thing or two since 2010, and have implemented new safety regulations to avoid one. It’s worth noting that Lion Air has not technically “crashed” any of its more modern New Generation 737s, however they do appear to have an issue with runway overruns, racking up 11 runway overruns in its 11 years of operation (with the most recent being less than a month ago at Balikpapan Airport on Oct 23rd 2011 with a 737-900). Would you let your children fly Lion Air?"
Would you let your child Fly for Lion Air?
P2F:
PAY $$$$ up front then "Fly a minimum of 100h per month, so you get your 500hrs in about 5-6 months time...
After that, a contract is offered to you (local terms)"