Jakarta –
Provision of transport infrastructure pioneer still facing many challenges. One major problem is the availability of transport fleets serving pioneering routes.
The chairman of the Commission V DPR RI Lasarus said that the infrastructure provided by the Ministry of Transport was actually quite sufficient. The only thing that gets “PR” is the lack of flights at several airports due to unavailability of airlines.
“Now for the pioneers, those who receive subsidies are airports that do not yet have commercial flights. For those who do, today we have many airports, but no airlines come,” he quoted via the Youtube channel of the Commission V of the Republic of Indonesia, Thursday (11/24/2022).
According to his guesses, this could be due to low demand or expensive tickets. Lasarus said it has been contacted by many regional chiefs regarding this matter, where commercial flights were not available at the airport.
“From what I have encountered, I took an example in our area. In the past, there were at most 3 airlines, Garuda, then Wings, and Nam came in. But now there is only one Wings airline, that is 3 times per week. What I get complaints from the public is that it’s expensive. Yes, because there’s only one airline,” she said.
This condition also raises a big question mark. According to him, one should ask why nobody wants to invest in the ready-made infrastructure sector and why airlines don’t want to fly there either.
“From the point of view of the Ministry of Transport, providing sufficient infrastructure, I think our airport is sufficient. The problem is that there are no planes flying. This is a problem. Maybe we will also be told later what the problem is” , has continued.
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