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Decrease in Air Passengers Over Festive Season, says Ministry
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The number of air travelers during the 2008 year-end festive season dropped slightly from the previous year, a government official said on Wednesday.
Tri Sunoko, director of air transport at the Ministry of Transportation, said that over the year-end holiday this year, 1.4 million people traveled via air carriers, slightly declining from the same period last year.
“Last year, 1.44 million people chose to travel by plane,” he said.
Tri Sunoko, director of air transport at the Ministry of Transportation, said that over the year-end holiday this year, 1.4 million people traveled via air carriers, slightly declining from the same period last year.
“Last year, 1.44 million people chose to travel by plane,” he said.
Tri said that the most popular domestic route linked Jakarta and Denpasar, followed by the route between Jakarta and Yogyakarta.
The number of passengers is slightly lower than the ministry’s estimate in December, when Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal predicted that 1.5 million people would travel by air.
However, Tri also said that the number of passengers traveling during the holiday season had increased by more than 10 percent, compared to those traveling during the low season.
Budhi Muliawan Suyitno, director general of aviation at the Transportation Ministry, last month said that eight local airliners had requested an additional 61,000 seats to accommodate the increase in the number of passengers.
A total of 5.7 million people were expected to travel by the year-end holiday this year, according to data released by the Transportation Ministry.
Minister Jusman said that most people use the year-end holiday to visit Indonesian tourism destinations, as opposed to the Idul Fitri holiday, when people mostly return to their hometowns.
Despite the high cost of air transportation, many Indonesians still rely heavily on aircraft as it is sometimes the only convenient form of public transportation available to link the various isolated areas in the outer islands of the archipelago.
However, a lack of aviation regulation enforcement has led to a string of accidents, instigating the blanket ban issued by the European Union in 2007, restricting all Indonesian aircraft from flying over European airspace. It cited safety as the main reason, based on the audit of the International Civil Aviation Organization, which listed 69 aviation recommendations for Indonesia.
Last month, the House of Representatives, or DPR, passed a bill on aviation in response to the ICAO’s recommendations.
Minister Jusman said that there would no longer be a reason for the EU to extend its ban after the passing of the aviation bill, comprising new regulations on air navigation, safety and human resources management.
An Adam Air jetliner with 102 people on board disappeared while it was flying over the strait of Makassar on New Year’s Day 2007. Search later found its wreckage deep on the floor of the strait, but none of the passengers on board were recovered.
Source : Putri Prameshwari, The Jakarta Globe
The number of passengers is slightly lower than the ministry’s estimate in December, when Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal predicted that 1.5 million people would travel by air.
However, Tri also said that the number of passengers traveling during the holiday season had increased by more than 10 percent, compared to those traveling during the low season.
Budhi Muliawan Suyitno, director general of aviation at the Transportation Ministry, last month said that eight local airliners had requested an additional 61,000 seats to accommodate the increase in the number of passengers.
A total of 5.7 million people were expected to travel by the year-end holiday this year, according to data released by the Transportation Ministry.
Minister Jusman said that most people use the year-end holiday to visit Indonesian tourism destinations, as opposed to the Idul Fitri holiday, when people mostly return to their hometowns.
Despite the high cost of air transportation, many Indonesians still rely heavily on aircraft as it is sometimes the only convenient form of public transportation available to link the various isolated areas in the outer islands of the archipelago.
However, a lack of aviation regulation enforcement has led to a string of accidents, instigating the blanket ban issued by the European Union in 2007, restricting all Indonesian aircraft from flying over European airspace. It cited safety as the main reason, based on the audit of the International Civil Aviation Organization, which listed 69 aviation recommendations for Indonesia.
Last month, the House of Representatives, or DPR, passed a bill on aviation in response to the ICAO’s recommendations.
Minister Jusman said that there would no longer be a reason for the EU to extend its ban after the passing of the aviation bill, comprising new regulations on air navigation, safety and human resources management.
An Adam Air jetliner with 102 people on board disappeared while it was flying over the strait of Makassar on New Year’s Day 2007. Search later found its wreckage deep on the floor of the strait, but none of the passengers on board were recovered.
Source : Putri Prameshwari, The Jakarta Globe
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