TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: The government has offered a chance to long-inactive airlines to become operational when their situations permit this possibility.
“We understand that today's situation is indeed difficult,” said M. Iksan Tatang, Director General of Air Transportation at the Department of Transportation, yesterday (02/14) in the Parliamentary complex, Jakarta.
According to him, the current intricate situation in the air transport business is due to low public confidence as numerous aircrafts accidents have recently occurred.
As a result, air transport operators are facing difficulties in their communications with other parties such as aircraft leasing companies.
Tatang also cited unfair press coverage on aircraft accidents as having also contributed to the weakening air transport businesses.
“News on air transport is read world-wide. Should reports be unfair, they may become a boomerang,” he said
However, Tatang said he considered that other countries were also facing difficult times regarding air transport businesses.
Article 54 of Transportation Ministerial Decree Number 81/2004 on Air Transport Holding states that operators that halt their operations must re-activate them within 90 calendar days at the latest.
Should this deadline expire, according Article 56, operators will be sent written warnings three times in a row at 1-month intervals
Afterwards, permits would be frozen for one month and if no improvements were made during this period, the permits would be revoked.
Based on data of the Department of Transportation, 11 airlines had been deactivated between April 2003 and December 2006.
Harun Mahbub
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