Kertajati Airport Manager: 'Boarding Pass' Performed At Indramayu Hajj Dormitory

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - West Java International Airport Manager (BIJB) Kertajati performed a direct boarding pass at the Haji Indramayu Dormitory, West Java (West Java), in order for the departure of pilgrims to run efficiently. "The inspection of passengers (boarding passes) was carried out at the Haji Indramayu Dormitory," said Executive General Manager of BIJB Kertajati Nuril Huda when confirmed at Majalengka, quoted from Antara, Thursday, May 9.Nuril explained that in addition to boarding passes, passenger safety checks were also diverted by some of BIJB Kertajati to the Haji Indramayu Dormitory. According to him, the policy has been agreed together with the relevant authorities, so that pilgrims could be dispatched directly to the Holy Land starting Sunday, May 12. The first batch to be dispatched on their flight schedule at 09.30 WIB. From the Haji Indramayu Dormitory, the pilgrims were immediately dispatched," he said again. Based on the data, said Nuril, the number of pilgrims dispatched to this year's Hajj flights was around 13,050 people and divided into 30 kloters. The number of candidates will later be added to the committee recorded around 150 people,'' too. He guarantees that all available facilities at Kertajati Airport are ready to be used, to support Hajj flight activities. President Director of PT BIJB Muhammad Singgih conveyed the technical direct departure, actually already implemented at the airport that serves hajj flights. His party has also coordinated with related agencies, so that the technical departure of pilgrims from the Haji Indramayu Dormitory to Kertajati Airport can be carried out as well as possible.

"They (jamaah) took a bus from the dormitory and immediately got off at BIJB Kertajati. Then they were flown. So they didn't go through the airport terminal like last year," he said.. A series of processes for health checks, immigration, to boarding for about 24 hours and carried out directly in hajj dormitories, "he said.