South East Asia Fleet: Lion Group growth slows while AirAsia and VietJet expand more aggressively

SOUTH EAST ASIA'S LARGEST airline entity, the Lion Group, has further slowed fleet expansion in 2018 and is on pace to take delivery of only 17 aircraft in 2018. The Indonesia based airline group has significantly slowed its expansion in the past three years, since taking an all time high of 57 aircraft in 2015.

Lion still has nearly 450 aircraft on order, but a large proportion of these will be used to replace its existing fleet. AirAsia and VietJet now have more growth aircraft on order than Lion.

The AirAsia and AirAsia X groups combined have nearly 500 aircraft on order, but a smaller fleet in service than Lion. VietJet now has commitments for over 300 aircraft, despite only reaching 60 aircraft in its in service fleet in early Aug-2018.