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| Rusdi Kirana with French President (Francois Hollande) and CEO of Airbus (Fabrice Bregier) |
For several years, lunge Rusdi Kirana is being in the spotlight. Nothing wrong when Rusdi's name has been entered as one of Indonesia's richest man in 2012. Rusdi's journey up the career in the airline business is actually not designed from scratch. In adolescence, Rusdi was a typewriter salesman. Got a warm welcome from the President of France in a room that is usually only reserved for the country's leaders, the billionaire who is not shy to be proud when he saw the red carpet that was held to greet him. "I am grateful to be able to come here, but I am more interested to the house that I built for staff and their families," said Rusdi, as quoted from page Reuters, Tuesday, March 19, 2013.
The house in question is Lion Air Village is now being built by Rusdi. Housing is designed for hostel accommodation for 3,000 people and 1,000 small houses around the Jakarta airport. In the dormitory, there were 10,000 people, including employees of Lion Air will stay. The development process has now completed 90%. Despite having bought hundreds of aircraft from two world renowned manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, Rusdi apparently chose to fly using flight in economy class and a lot more talk about his simple life. "I prefer to fly in economy class, but sometimes it makes producers may be uncomfortable. I do not want to disappoint the manufacturers," said Kirana.
Although it continues to expand its business into the global arena, Lion Air was still had problems with the company's image. Lion Air is known as the airline with the flight schedule is often too late. In addition, Lion Air also has a ban on flying to Europe due to concerns on aviation safety factor. Rusdi said the judgment was not fair. "This move does not change anything although I buy Airbus planes. However, I hope things will continue to run," he said.
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