Accelerating the Recovery of the Aviation Industry, Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Asks INACA to Synergize to Find Solutions

Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi. (Photo: Doc. Ministry of Transportation)

JAKARTA - Minister of Transportation Budi Karya Sumadi asked the administrators of the Indonesian National Air Carriers Association (INACA) to work together to find solutions to accelerate the recovery of national flights after being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I hope that the elected INACA chairman and management can work together to find the best solution to accelerate the recovery of the aviation industry", said the Minister of Transportation when opening the General Meeting of Members and Election of the INACA 2022-2025 Management with the theme 'Recover Stronger Grow Faster' online, Thursday, October 27.

Minister of Transportation Budi also advised the elected INACA management to ask all airlines to maintain and improve on-time performance (OTP).

Budi said several ways to maintain OTP are by minimizing the factors of delays in a flight, both management such as personnel, completeness of facilities, as well as operational technical factors that require coordination with related parties such as airport management and navigation.

"September 2022 data stated that all INACA member airlines achieved an OTP figure of 76.79 percent. This number increased from the previous year in 2021, which was 75.31 percent", he said.

Furthermore, Budi asked INACA to pay attention to the limited number of fleets, which is one of the problems faced by airlines due to the pandemic, which causes an imbalance between supply (the availability of aircraft fleets) and demand, namely the number of people's requests.

"When the pandemic subsides, there is public euphoria to move back. However, with the supply being still limited, it results in stagnation that affects services to the community", he said.

Budi asked INACA to pay special attention to the connectivity needs of frontier, remote, outermost, and border areas (3TP) that must be met.

"We must see and listen to the needs of our brothers in Aceh, Kalimantan, Papua, and eastern Indonesia", said the Minister of Transportation.

Regarding the readiness of the air transportation sector in the Indonesian Presidency event at the G20 event in Bali on November 15-16 2022, Budi asked all INACA members to continue to provide optimal commercial flight services.

Budi said that the flight service must also pay attention to the limited operation on November 14-18 2022 which is stated in the Circular of the Director General of Civil Aviation Number 11 of 2022 concerning Flight Operational Arrangements During the Implementation of the 2022 G20 Presidency Summit in Indonesia at I Gusti Airport. Ngurah Rai, Bali.

"This provision is to balance VVIP flights and delegates, with regular flights", he said.