Jakarta Globe, March 26, 2011
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Indonesian Twitter users woke up on Satuday to an early morning plane seat mix-up incident that ended with lawmaker Roy Suryo being asked to leave a Lion Air flight.
Twitter user @ernestprakasa said he boarded the 6:15 a.m. flight to Yogyakarta with his friend only to find their seats occupied by the Democrat Party lawmaker and his wife.
“When it was checked, it turned out that Roy Suryo's tickets were for the 7:45 flight, instead of 6.15 a.m. but he refused to leave the plane, dropping the name of Lion Air's director,” Ernest wrote.
Ernest said he and his friend decided to just leave the plane, but suddenly some of the other passengers shouted, “Don't let officials beat you!” and “Hey, Roy Suryo, don't pull a Nurdin Halid. You must step down now!”
In the midst of the chaos, the pilot, identified only as Capt. Vino, came out to the cabin to ask what was going on because the flight was already 15 minutes late.
After receiving an explanation from a flight attendant, the captain walked into the cockpit, grabbed his bag and angrily walked over to the plane's door, cursing government officials as he did so.
The captain refused to take off if Ernest and his friend were not on the plane.
Shortly after, a group of airport officers approached Roy Suryo, and the lawmaker finally got up and apologized to the passengers.
“I am sorry for having disturbed your flight,” he said, to the applause of the passengers.
After Suryo left, the captain returned to the cockpit and started the take-off procedure.
However, Suryo said he was simply a victim of Lion Air's mistake.
“Tweeps, I was the one who became the bigger man and took the blame for Lion Air's mistake in the double-seat incident. As the people's representative, I know ethics require me to apologize and prioritize others,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
Roy claimed Lion Air has apologized to him for the "miscommunication."
Lion Air refused to comment on the incident, saying they will verify the flight documents first.
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