PT Wings Abadi Airlines, operating as Wings Air, is a scheduled commuter passenger

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based in

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. The airline operates out of

Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Internasional Sultan Hasanuddin) is an international airport in Makassar, South Sulawesi. It is located northeast of Makassar's city centre and is operated by PT. Angkasa Pura I. Th ...

Makassar Makassar (, mak, ᨆᨀᨔᨑ, Mangkasara’, ) is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Med ...

as well as several other airports around Indonesia. The company was established as a short-haul

regional flight A regional airline is a general classification of airline which typically operates scheduled passenger air service, using regional aircraft, between communities lacking sufficient demand or infrastructure to attract mainline flights. In North ...

service, wholly owned subsidiary of

Lion Air PT Lion Mentari Airlines, operating as Lion Air, is an Indonesian low-cost airline. Based in Jakarta, Lion Air is the country's largest privately run airline, the second largest low-cost airline in Southeast Asia (after AirAsia) and the large ...

and started operations on July 10, 2003 and the airline is currently linking tier-two and tier-three cities in Indonesia as to bypass the airline's congested base in Jakarta.

Destinations

Fleet

Wings Air ATR ATR-72-500 (ATR-72-212A) Spijkers-1

Wings Air De Havilland Canada DHC-8-301 Dash 8 TTT-1

The Wings Air fleet consists of an all-ATR fleet:

Aircraft orders

On 15 November 2009, Wings Air announced that it had signed a deal with

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worth US$600 million. The deal involved an order for 15

ATR 72-500 The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed and produced in France and Italy by aircraft manufacturer ATR (french: Avions de transport régional or it, Aerei da Trasporto Regionale), a joint venture formed ...

aircraft with a further 15 options for ATR's new

ATR 72-600 The ATR 72 is a twin-engine turboprop, short-haul regional airliner developed and produced in France and Italy by aircraft manufacturer ATR (french: Avions de transport régional or it, Aerei da Trasporto Regionale), a joint venture formed ...

aircraft. The new aircraft replaced the airline's aging

Bombardier Dash 8 The De Havilland Canada DHC-8, commonly known as the Dash 8, is a series of turboprop-powered regional airliners, introduced by de Havilland Canada (DHC) in 1984. DHC was later bought by Boeing in 1988, then by Bombardier in 1992; then by ...

aircraft and will allow further expansion into smaller airports within Indonesia. The first three ATR 72-500s were delivered in January 2010 and were inaugurated at a ceremony in the tourist and diving destination of

Manado Manado () is the capital city of the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi. It is the second largest city in Sulawesi after Makassar, with the 2020 Census giving a population of 451,916 distributed over a land area of 162.53 km2.Badan Pusa ...

. On 25 February 2011

signed an order for 15 new ATR 72s for the Wings Air fleet. The 2009 contract had included options for 15 additional ATR 72-600 aircraft. The deal announced in February 2011 represented the conversion of all 15 options. On 27 November 2014

signed an order for 40 new ATR 72-600 for the Wings Air fleet. It makes Lion Group ATR's largest customer of.

Former aircraft

* Bombardier Dash 8-300 * McDonnell Douglas MD-80

Accidents and incidents

* On 25 December 2016, Wings Air Flight 1896, an ATR 72-600 carrying 52 passengers and crew veered off the runway and crashed on its side while landing in Semarang in bad weather. No one was killed in the crash however six people were treated for shock. The aircraft was substantially damaged. Passengers stated that the undercarriage broke during landing. * On 5 January 2017, Wings Air flight IW-1372 registration PK-WFP, overran the taxiway while taxiing in

Rahadi Osman Airport Rahadi Usman Airport or Rahadi Oesman Airport , also known as Ketapang Airport, is an airport in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the ...

Ketapang Ketapang or ''Tau-pang'' in Teochew is the capital city of Ketapang Regency (''Kabupaten Ketapang''), one of the regencies of West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. Ketapang city is located at and is a small city on t ...

. The aircraft was carrying 30 passengers and 5 crew. No fatalities.

References

External links

Lion Air website
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