Lion Air hikes ATR order total to 60
Pak Rusdi Kirana, chairman Wings Air and president Lion Air, and Filippo Bagnato, CEO ATR. Photo by Gregory Polek.
Pak Rusdi Kirana, chairman Wings Air and president Lion Air, and Filippo Bagnato, CEO ATR. Photo by Gregory Polek.

Indonesia’s Lion Air on Thursday inked a firm contract for another 27 ATR 72-600s, raising its order total for the new Franco-Italian turboprops to 40 and making it the manufacturer’s largest customer for ATR 72s. Regional subsidiary Wings Air already operates 16 ATR 72-500s and awaits delivery on four more. Deliveries of Lion Air’s first ATR 72-600 will start in November and run into 2015, Wings Air chairman and Lion Air president Pak Ruski Kirana told a packed assemblage of reporters and officials at the ATR stand. ATR places the value of this latest order at $610 million.