The Hague (ANTARA News) - Visiting Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said national flag-carrier Garuda Indonesia will possibly resume its flights to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in June this year.
"We hope Garuda will start flying to Europe again in June this year," Kalla said in a dialog with members of the Indonesian community in the Netherlands here on Monday.
Hearing the good news from the vice president, the audience at the meeting broke into a rapturous applause because Garuda had suspended its flights to Europe, including to Schippol airport in Amsterdam, following a ban imposed by the European Union on Indonesian airline flights in July 2007.
Kalla said, when the the EU flight ban was declared, Garuda was required to make improvements on 60 flight safety points but now the list had shrunk to 10 points.
"It would be good for us to make a self-assessment. The remaining 10 points can be improved in the next two months," the vice president said, adding that Garuda had purchased several new aircraft for the Jakarta-Amsterdam route.
Kalla said aircraft prices had dropped so Garuda could buy several new ones for its Jakarta-Europe services.
Meanwhile, the Indonesian community in the Netherlands expressed hope that the resumption of Garuda flights to Amsterdam would really materialize.
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