Aero Southern

A member of Aeolus

Largest Indonesian Airline, Indonesia Best!

Where ever you want to fly in Indonesia, Aero Southern is your choice.

Callsign: SOUTHERN AIRWAYS

Frequent-flyer program: SouthernPlus (Applied for Aero Southern and all Aero Southern subsidiaries)

Headquarters: Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia

Our hubs:

Southeast Aisa:

Jakarta International Airport (Soekarno-Hatta): International flights and domestic flights servicing most of the cities in Indonesia

Juanda Airport (Surabaya): operating flights to major cities in Indonesia and hubs of our friends in south-east Asia

Sultan Hasanuddin Airport (Makassar): Eastern Indonesia hub, connection flights to Trans Insulindia Airlines flights

Bali Airport (Ngurah Rai) Denpasar: connection flights to ZK Airways and Air Dewata flights

Medan Kualanamu Airport: Regional and International Hub serving Indonesia, Malaysia, and the greater SE Asia region, connection-focused hub

Yogyakarta International Airport: Connection hub for Indonesian and international traffic, connection-focused hub

Jacksons International Airport: Hub for Trans Papua Airways and POAC, servicing Oceania region

Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Airport (Balikpapan): Kalimantan transfer hubs

Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport (Palembang): Southern Sumatra transfer hubs

Dortheys Hiyo Eluay International Airport (Jayapura): Western New Guinea transfer hubs

Hang Nadim International Airport (Batam): Indonesian and Malaysian transfer hubs

Senai International Airport: Local transfer hubs

International Hubs:

Lynden Pindling International Airport: Hub for Royal Bahamas, servicing North America region and trans-Atlantic flights, connection-focused hub, Aero Southern Groupe terminal and minor capacity offered by CROWN.

Baghdad International Airport: Hub for AIA, servicing the middle-east region, connection-focused hub.

Kyiv Boryspil International Airport: Hub for UEEA, servicing the Eastern European region, connection-focused hub.

Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport: Hub for UEEA, servicing the Central Europe region, connection-focused hub.

Odesa International Airport: Hub for UEEA and BSA, servicing the Black Sea and Balkan region, connection-focused hub.

Cargo Hub:
Taipei Taoyuan International Airport: Eastern Asia hub

Chicago Rockford International Airport: North America hub

Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport: Southwestern China hub

Tianjin Binhai International Airport: Northern China and Northeast Asia hub

Ontario International Airport: North America West Coast Mini-hub

Our focus cities:
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Singapore Changi Airport
Kota Kinabalu International Airport
Kuching International Airport
Husein Sastranegara International Airport (Bandung)
Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport (Jakarta)
Sam Ratulangi International Airport (Manado)

Our Operations:
- Aero Southern:
-- Zamrud Khatulistiwa Airways
-- Nusantara Air Lines
-- Tanah Air Service
-- Maritime Southeast Asia Airlines (formerly Indonesian Flyer)

- Aero Southern Express:
-- Trans Insulindia Airlines
-- Sumatra Air Commuter
-- Trans Northwest Service Company

- Air Dewata (non-Aero Southern branded Bali local carrier)

- Nanyang-Melaka-Borneo Airways

- Aviakompaniya Skhidnoyi Yevropy Avialiniyi Ukrayina (UEEA)
-- Black Sea Airlines (BSA)
-- Gudija National Airlines (GNA)

- Royal Bahamas Airlines
-- Bahamas Commonwealth Express

- Al-Iraqi Airlines
-- AIRAQ International

- Trans Papua Airways
-- Papuan Overseas Airways Corporation (POAC)

- Air Pulau Ujong International
- TATL Timor Aerial Services
- Trans Polynesian Aviation Company (TPAC)
- Cacique Solomon (a former Limpleg Air company)
- fly BLACK KwaZulu (a former TJE company)

Interlining
No trial account!
No frequently restarted business!

If you already have an IL with an unfriendly airline in Malaysia, your application will be auto-rejected. Currently, ONLY ILs with the following airline(s) in Malaysia would not result in rejection:
- Nanyang-Melaka-Borneo Airways

IGM is recommended. New IL without IGM may face rejection! Please write IGM in English if you can.
If you already had an IL with us, no IGM is needed for your other airlines. Any airline that applies for ILs should NOT have any ILs with other airlines in Indonesia. Any airline that does not meet this requirement will face immediate rejection. Generally, if your airline is directly competing with Asia Smile, the ILs will also not be accepted.
Since Aero Southern is a member of Aeolus, all ILs might be reviewed if the alliance member asks to. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Please send a message with explanations if you decide to terminate the IL. A termination without a message may face rejection when you apply for IL next time and might affect the ILs with other divisions in the whole Aero Southern groupe.

Connection information:
Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta: Aero Southern domestic and international
Surabaya: Aero Southern domestic and international
Denpasar Bali: Aero Southern domestic, Trans Insulindia Airlines domestic and international, Zamrud Khatulistiwa Airways domestic and international
Ujung Pandang / Makassar: Aero Southern domestic, Trans Insulindia Airlines domestic
Medan: Aero Southern domestic and international, Trans Insulindia Airlines domestic and international, Sumatra Air Commuter domestic and international, ZK international
Yogyakarta: Aero Southern domestic and international, Trans Insulindia Airlines domestic and international, Sumatra Air Commuter domestic and international, ZK international

Also, consider our partners in Bangkok (Asian Smile Group); we provide a full network in the region! Fly around Southeast Asia!

ILs with Air Dewata and Nusantara Air Lines are currently not suggested.

Aero Southern 'Flying Museum' project
Running an airline is more than making money. Aero Southern is now providing an experience of flying with 'classic' aircraft:

Aerospatiale / Nord 262 (Trans Polynesian)
AVIC II / XIAN Y-7 series (Trans Insulindia Airlines)
BAC-1-11 'One-Eleven' (Air Dewata)
BAE/HS 748/ATP (Bahamas Commonwealth Express)
Boeing 727-100/200 series (Nusantara Air Lines)
Boeing 737-200 series (Aero Southern)
Boeing 747-100/200/300/SP (Zamrud Khatulistiwa Airways)
Casa CN-235 (Bahamas Commonwealth Express)
Convair CV-580 (Trans Polynesian)
Douglas DC-9 series/ McDonnell Douglas MD-80/90 series 'Super 80' (Tanah Air Service)
Douglas DC-8 series (Trans Northwest Air Service)
Embraer EMB-110/120 series (Bahamas Commonwealth Express)
Fairchild Dornier 228 (Ai-Iraqi)
Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner (Trans Northwest Air Service)
Fokker F27/50 and Fairchild F-27J/FH-227 (Sumatra Air Commuter)
Fokker F28 series (Zamrud Khatulistiwa Airways)
Ilyushin IL-86 (Maritime Southeast Asia Airlines)
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar (Nusantara Air Lines)
NAMC YS-11 (Trans Polynesian)
McDonnell Douglas DC-10 series (Maritime Southeast Asia Airlines)
Tupolev TU-134 'Crusty' (Trans Northwest Air Service)
Shorts 330/360 (Nusantara Air Lines)
Tupolev TU-154 (Tanah Air Service)
Yakovlev YAK-40 (Tanah Air Service)
Yakovlev YAK-42D (Sumatra Air Commuter)

News:
20/09/2014: 10 million passengers

09/11/2014: All Boeing 757s start to retire. They will be replaced by more latest Boeing 737s and Boeing 767s. Boeing 757s owned by Aero Southern will be leased.

04/12/2014: ASO 3078 is the last flight operated by Aero Southern Boeing 757 fleets. Now, all 757 operated by Aero Southern are replaced by 737 and 767. Goodbye 757, and thank you.

13/1/2015: ATR renews program started. Old ATRs will be replaced by new ordered ATRs. 30 new ATR42-500s are directly ordered from AVIOS TRANSPORT REGIONAL, and Aero Southern is becoming the largest operator of ATR42-500. Renew of ATR72 will also be started soon.

15/01/2015: 20 million passengers

06/02/2015: More Aero Southern Groupe departure flights in Sultan Hasanuddin Airport than Jakarta International Airport. Good job Trans Insulindia!

09/02/2015: The largest airline group in Indonesia, IAG, ceased operation. Aero Southern became the largest airline in Indonesia.

02/03/2015: From Jakarta to every single corner in Indonesia! Jakarta airport serves all the airports in Indonesia by Aero Southern. Travel to where ever you want in Indonesia every day!

15/11/2015: Upgrading or renewing ATRs.

31/12/2015: New Year, New Goal. The expansion of the whole group will temporally stop in the new year (the Subic Bay cargo hub will be still expanded, but will also be stopped shortly). Aero Southern will start to acquire recent leasing aircraft or buy new aircraft from the manufacturers. Fly with our own planes!

15/01/2016: Aero Southern groupe now announces that our Subic Bay cargo hub will be closed in the next three days. Our main customers in Subic Bay were closed down, and the need for cargo transportation was reduced. Aero Southern will move the cargo hub to Australia in the next few weeks.

23/09/2016: Changing alliance from Mondial to Aeolus.

29/08/2017: Fleet restructuring: B767s would be put out of service and replaced by B737s due to poor performance. All B767s owned by the airline would be on standby until further notice.

02/04/2018: fly BLACK KwaZulu transferred from TJE group to Aero Southern group

10/10/2021: Due to the liquidation of AviASIA, all flights at CGK will be temporarily moved back to the less desirable terminal operated by the airport authority. A new terminal owned by Aero Southern group will be built, and all flights will be moved into this new terminal as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this event to all passengers. We also appreciate the years of good services offered by AviASIA, especially at our Jakarta, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur hubs