Southeast Asia Fertile Territory for Regional OEMs
Indonesia’s Sky Aviation took delivery of its third Sukhoi SSJ100 in December.
Indonesia’s Sky Aviation took delivery of its third Sukhoi SSJ100 in December.

With its diverse geography and increasingly prosperous and mobile populations, Southeast Asia has become a target of opportunity the world’s regional aircraft OEMs can no longer afford to overlook. One of the earliest to tap the region’s potential, Franco-Italian turboprop maker ATR, has for the past 15 years developed a visibility in the region unmatched by its competitors. While others concentrated on the U.S. and Europe, ATR, perhaps out of necessity, took to exploiting less obvious opportunities in developing markets within Vietnam and Thailand, for example. More recently, it has placed significant fleets with Malaysia Airlines and, its largest customer in the region, Lion Air, whose subsidiaries Wings Air and Malindo together fly 45 ATRs and hold firm delivery slots on another 15.