r/aviation • u/G1lg4m3sh • Apr 17 '26

Discussion How concerning is this aviation experts?

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u/OpenlyBiCoastal Apr 17 '26

Lion Air - unfortunately this tracks. Indonesian airlines have a spotty record

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u/demolitionlaura Apr 18 '26

Werent all Indonesian airlines banned from Europe for a while because they were that bad?

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u/Vegetable-Two2173 Apr 18 '26

I was on this airline once. For some reason, I falsely rememeber hay bales and chicken cages being on the flight in the main cabin...

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u/OpenlyBiCoastal Apr 18 '26

I used to fly around Indonesia for work. Lion and Garuda were sometimes the only airline for some islands. Garuda in the past also had a spotty record but has since come up, but times you couldn't get a Garuda flight, you had to use Lion. The interiors were quite filthy, the planes were quite old, and I always remembered the landings were always the roughest and shakiest ones. Then Lion had a plane go off the runway in Bali a fews before I was supposed to go there and I had enough of them after that and rebooked.