The ministry'€™s public communications center head JA Barata said in a written statement in Jakarta that two out of the five airline companies said to have violated route-permit regulations had clarified the findings of the ministry'€™s national airline flight-route implementation audit and evaluation team.

'€œTwo out of five airline companies, which were announced to have violated flight schedules or route permits on Friday afternoon, have confirmed [information] with the ministry'€™s air transportation directorate. The two companies are PT TransNusa Aviation Mandiri and PT Garuda Indonesia [Tbk],'€ Barata said as quoted by Antara news agency.

On Friday afternoon, the ministry announced that TransNusa Air'€™s Denpasar-Labuan Bajo and vice versa routes had violated route-permit procedures. Responding to the finding, PT TransNusa Aviation Mandiri clarified later that day that its daily Denpasar-Labuan Bajo flight route fulfilled permit requirements completely and legally.

'€œTransNusa'€™s clarification has been confirmed by the evaluation and audit team,'€ said Barata.

He further explained that the mistake happened because initially TransNusa was only known to have permit approval for flight routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7. Later, it was revealed that TransNusa also had permit approval for flight route 5, the documents for which were separated from the others.

'€œThus, TransNusa, which serves a daily flight route of Denpasar-Labuan Bajo, and vice versa, did not commit any violations,'€ said Barata.

Meanwhile, Garuda Indonesia has also clarified the findings of the audit and evaluation team, which previously stated that four Garuda flights serving its Makassar-Jeddah and Medan-Jeddah routes, and vice versa, had violated permit requirements.

Barata said the four flights were Makassar-Medan coded GA-626, Medan Jeddah (GA-986), Jeddah-Medan (GA-987) and Medan-Makassar (GA-627).

'€œThe Transportation Ministry earlier announced that Garuda Indonesia serving Makassar-Medan-Jeddah when operating should use '€˜one flight number'€™ but in fact, it used '€˜two flight numbers'€™; thus, the airline was considered to have violated permit regulations,'€ said Barata.

'€œBased on the findings, on Friday evening, Garuda carried out improvement measures so that its Makassar-Medan-Jeddah flight route is now in line with the ministry'€™s rules and regulations,'€ he said. (ebf)(+++)

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