Lion Air Logo

About Lion Air

Lion Air is an Indonesian low-cost airline and the founding carrier of Lion Air Group. It was set up in 1999 by the brothers Rusdi and Kusnan Kirana and began flying on 30 June 2000 with a leased Boeing 737-200 between Jakarta, Denpasar and Pontianak, becoming Indonesia's first low-cost airline.

Its main hubs are Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta, Makassar and Surabaya, and the fleet is built mainly around the Boeing 737 family. The group has since added sister airlines such as the regional carrier Wings Air, the full-service Batik Air and Thai Lion Air in Thailand.

The Lion Air Logo: Design and Meaning

The Lion Air logo is a red wordmark: "Lion" in bold italic letters, a stylised lion's head with a flowing, flame-like mane in the middle, and "air" in lower-case italics. The forward slant of the letters gives the name a sense of speed, while the lion's head works on its own as a symbol on aircraft tails, check-in counters and the airline's app.

The whole logo uses a single bright red, which makes it simple to reproduce in one colour and keeps it recognisable at airports where it appears next to many other airline brands. The file on this page is a transparent PNG of the full wordmark with the lion symbol.