Maintenance and Modifications
Lion Air’s Batam Development Boosts Local Maintenance Capacity
Lion Air's rapidly expanding Boeing 737 fleet will undergo heavy maintenance at a new facility on the island of Batam. (Photo: Boeing)
Lion Air's rapidly expanding Boeing 737 fleet will undergo heavy maintenance at a new facility on the island of Batam. (Photo: Boeing)

As carriers in emerging markets mature, their fleet support needs account for an ever-increasing part of their operating budgets. Indonesia’s LionAir, for one, has begun the process of investing directly in the upkeep of what it expects eventually to become a 700-strong fleet with a new $250 million heavy maintenance facility at Hang Nadim International Airport on the island of Batam called Batam Aero Technic. Plans call for the facility to open the first of four hangars this month and eventually provide third-party services. Located south of Singapore, the facility’s host airport boasts the longest runway in Indonesia, and the only one on the island of Batam.

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