Lion Group Safety Initiatives

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Captain Jose Fernandez:Well, IOSA is a very well-known safety accreditation worldwide, so we need this kind of accreditation to improve our safety level and for sure to demonstrate the world that we are improving and we are getting a good safety level? Yeah, well, all the group, we were working on that since 2014, but we decided to start by Thai Lion Air. So Thai Lion Air was the first airline getting the IOSA accreditation, but we already have audited another 4 airlines. So we expect by the end of this year to have all the airlines in the group IOSA registered. Well, all the airlines are following the same process. Initially, we prepare for them. We perform an internal audit using the IOSA standards, and as I said already, we have IOSA for another 4 airlines. The audit is finished. We are just finishing for the process, just waiting for the process of IATA to finish the audit. So all of the airlines will be registered by the end of 2016. Well, as I say, the IOSA project is to demonstrate to the European authorities that we have improved in terms of safety and quality. And for us, it's very important also because we will open our airlines to European customers, because since Lion Airlines were on the blacklist, most European citizens, they are not willing to fly with us. Well, Batik is already out of the blacklist, and Wings, we are working, but the blacklist is not just a project of the airline. It must involve the authority, the Indonesian authority. So now we have to start working with the Indonesian authority to demonstrate that the Indonesian DGCA Has enough resources and a good oversight over wins. As soon as we have this, we start the process in Brussels. Well, we we work very closely with the Indonesian DGCC in all the projects they are involved: FAA, U U Ban, U Blacklist, Air Nav. Also, there is an IKEA project now in progress in Indonesia. All the the the new projects Lion Group is involved from them with the Indonesian DGCC. Well, Malindo was the first airline in the Lion Group flying to Australia. So we provide at the group level, we provide a lot of advice and a lot of resources to them to demonstrate the CSA a good level of safety and to ensure that the operation into Australia is safe. We are not in a hurry. We are working on that. So we have to be sure that everything is ready. We are already implementing all the Safety measures. Batik has a very good safety level, so it just depends on how it takes the processing inside Australia, but we are already working on that. Lion Air is not, for the time being, looking to operate into Australia in the short term. Perhaps in the midterm we will try to offer some Indonesian destinations with Lion Air, but not for the time being. Well, we are now working to improve our time performance. Batik Air now is Indonesia number one on time performance, and we are working very hard in Lion and Wings to achieve the same level like Batik at this moment. At group level, we have around 3,000 pilots. We have our own Ab Initio school, so we are working to have enough pilots, enough resources to to feed up all our airlines inside the group, but also to improve and enhance the quality of the training we provide to them. So we have involved some external bodies in the initial training, and also we have involved Airbus training organization in our simulator center in order to provide our people the best training as possible. What is the future of safety and aviation?

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