JAKARTA - Susi Air's Corporate Secretary, Nadine Kaiser, explained that the Malinau Hangar is a maintenance center for Susi Air aircraft in Kalimantan. Thus, the forced evictions and the extension of the rejected lease permits will affect the company's operations.
Nadine said Susi Air also has a maintenance base in Sentani, Papua. Where all aircraft serving flights there will return to Sentani for treatment. Likewise with the Malinau Hangar as a maintenance base for Kalimantan.
"So in Kalimantan all aircraft must be rotated to Malinau. So if for example there are words this hangar cannot have an impact on operations, it is very, very wrong. Hangars and maintenance facilities are one of the hearts or veins in an ecosystem," he said in press conference virtually, Friday, February 4th.
With the forced eviction incident and the rejection of the extension of the Malinau Hangar rental, Nadine said the company was trying not to cancel the flight schedule. One of them is by asking for help from several agencies to carry out maintenance.
"We may have to ask for help from several agencies to carry out maintenance in several places. Only for now, we still don't know. We try but maybe in a week or two the schedule will start to be cancelled. a hangar, must also be certified," he said.
"Malinau already has the AOC listed, so if for example we have maintenance in another hangar, we have to apply again for certification, so it's not an easy thing to do maintenance in a new place, the process is quite long," he continued.
keep operating
Even so, Nadine stressed that Susi Air would not stop operations in North Kalimantan. Because, Susi Air has a commitment with the government to serve flights in the area.
"For the termination due to the operation, it might take one or two weeks. Only from us, we don't want to stop. Because we have a commitment with the government for one year. We will try to live it as best we can and Susi Air is about commitment, " he explained.
On the same occasion, Operations Manager Mellinasari explained that a refused rental permit in the hangar of Colonel RA Bessing Malinau Airport would greatly disrupt operations. Because, aircraft maintenance can not be done.
"However, with this incident, our aircraft are carrying out maintenance, the hangar cannot be used, there may be an impact on pioneer flights in the next one or two weeks. We will have difficulty finding replacement aircraft," he explained.
According to Melli, as an airline serving pioneer flights, his party must prepare a replacement aircraft. Meanwhile, the other planes were not ready.
"One or two weeks there will be cancellations in several places in Samarinda, Malinau, Tarakan Masamba," he said.
Melli also explained that the community's need for pioneering aircraft was certain. Because, there is no other mode of transportation other than airplanes. Meanwhile, using a speedboat will make a longer time of approximately 8 hours.
"Because they can only fly, via boat or plane," he said.
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