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Soekarno-Hatta International Airport aims to be in top 50 in 2015
State-run airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II (APII) aims to have Soekarno-Hatta International Airport enter the Skytrax top-50 best airports in the world by 2015
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tate-run airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II (APII) aims to have Soekarno-Hatta International Airport enter the Skytrax top-50 best airports in the world by 2015.
Skytrax is a global airline review and ranking consultant that conducts annual surveys on 410 airports worldwide.
Currently, the airport is ranked 60, compared to its 2013 rank of 113.
"In comparison to other airports in the world, Soekarno-Hatta International Airport's position keeps improving. In 2015, we hope the airport will be one of the top 50 in the world," AP II president director Tri Sunoko said in a press release, as reported by tribunnews.com.
Tri added that the airport, which is also the eighth-busiest airport in the world, was on its way to becoming a world-class airport by 2016.
"The improvement of services at Soekarno-Hatta has been acknowledged by Skytrax. In 2014, the airport was voted fourth among the World's Most Improved Airports," he said.
One of the programs AP II had designed to increase the airport's quality is having staff clean the terminals every month.
During this month's cleaning session, State-Owned Enterprises Minister Dahlan Iskan said the state of the airport had improved greatly in the past two years.
"I just returned from Kuala Lumpur and Penang, and Soekarno-Hatta airport is much cleaner than those two airports," he said.
In 2013, the number of passengers traveling through Soekarno-Hatta airport rose by 3.5 percent to 62.1 million. (fss)
