Government to Issue Three New Airline Permits

The Transportation Ministry plans to issue three new airline permits for schedule flights before end of the year. The three carriers to acquire the SIUP (Surat Izin usaha Penerbangan) permits namely, PT Indonesia Air Transport (IAT), Nusantara Air Charter (NAC) Avia Patra, and KalStar of Kalimantan.
Further the Director General of Air Transportation, Iksan Tatang said, the three operators has submitted proposal to the ministry for feeder routes in remote areas of the country. "Specifically to service air routes in the far eastern part of Indonesia," he said.
He reminded that IAT and NAC has already acquired license permit for charter flights and is currently planning also to fly scheduled flights. "While KalStar is presently a company in the travel agency sector," Tatang explained further after inaugurating 541 students of the Curug Flying School in Tangerang, near Jakarta.
"According to the Director General, our permit will be issued in December," said Andi Masyhur, president director of KalStar to Angkasa in mid September. Currently his company wet-lease an ATR-42 and two ATR-72 commuter planes from Trigana air charter company in servicing the whole island of Kalimantan and services connecting to Java island.
In line with submitting the airline permit, KalStar planned to strengthen the company with five new aircraft, two ATR-42s and three ATR-72s making KalStar the biggest operator of Franco-Italian ATR planes in Indonesia. At present the ATR population in the region has reached over 20 units.
"Our fleet planning is only one type, Avion de Tranport Regionale commuter plane," Masyhur said who headquartered his KalStar in Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD) satellite town in the west outskirt of capital Jakarta. (ds-angkasa magazine)

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