TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: All national airlines must be included in the first category of the Transportation Department's standard by next year. This category requires airlines to fulfill all civil aviation safety provisions.
The Director General of Air Transportation at the Transportation Department, Budhi Mulyawan Suyitno, said that the government will take strict action if an airline is still in the second, let alone third category. Airlines in this category will be supervised, but if they don't improve they will be given a warning. However, if after that they do not improve, activities will be frozen.
Airlines categorized as second class mean that they have not yet fulfilled all the civil aviation safety provisions, but are not endangering lives. As for the airlines being in the third category, they only fulfill the minimum safety standard and not some provisions that have the potential to lower the safety level.
“It's time for the national airlines to be in the first category because they must be ready to face the free trade era,” said Budi in Jakarta yesterday (24/5). This means airlines can no longer be in the third category.
Harun Mahbub
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