Citilink expected 30 thousand prospective passenger transport Batavia

Heru Abraham

Sindonews.com -a subsidiary of PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk (GIAA) for low-cost flight service, PT Citilink Indonesia fully support an appeal back Indonesia's Government through the Directorate General (Ditjen) Nexus air with passengers to accommodate prospective ex Batavia Air Jakarta-Bengkulu purposes, Jakarta-Jakarta-Jambi, and Balikpapan.

"We hope through this mechanism that made the whole prospective of Citilink can accommodate passengers to travel, meet with relatives up to perform business activities at your destination in comfort, especially in the city of Jambi, Bengkulu, and Balikpapan," said Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of PT Citilink Indonesia, Arif Wibowo in his remarks in Jakarta, Monday (18/3/2013).

Arif explains, total passengers from all over the former route of the Batavia Air to be accommodated Citilink expected to reach 30 thousand. Until now, the former route of the Batavia Air is already served by Citilink, besides Jakarta-Bengkulu, Indonesia-Balikpapan and Jakarta-Jakarta route-Jambi is Batam, Surabaya, Jakarta-Ujungpandang-Jakarta, Indonesia-Lombok, and Bali.

"We are working hard to fulfill the commitment as an airline consumer choice of air transport grew rapidly in this country, especially for those who choose to use the low cost carrier (low-cost carriers) by conducting a thorough preparation for opening more new routes," he explained.

As evidence of its success in its commitment improve services to customers, Citilink has grabbed several awards among others by Indonesia Travel and Tourism Foundation for category Leading Low Cost Airline 2011/2012, Best Overall Marketing Campaign category at The Budgies and Travel Awards.

In addition, Citilink also awarded the Service To Care Award 2012 for Airlines category from Markplus Insight, and most recently the Indonesia Leading Low Cost Airlines 2012/2013 of ITTA Foundation as well as the best national airline by Tourism Award 2010/11 Masterpiece.

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Transport costs could potentially go up 30%

Candy and MINERAL RESOURCES No. 1/2013 Izzudin

Sindonews.com -Chairman of the Indonesia Association of Logistics (ALI), Zaldi Masita says, in practice in the field of use restriction on oil fuel (BBM) occurs for all types of subsidized vehicle truck.

"Whereas, based on Candy and MINERAL RESOURCES No. 1/2013, which was restricted to the top four-wheeled trucks that operate plantations, forestry activities, and mine," he said in the affidavits to Sindonews, Friday (15/3/2013).

It claims to be, has received more than 10 reports of Java, Sumatra, and Borneo. The policy is not appropriate for these potentially increasing transport costs up to 30 percent. "And of course have an impact on logistics cost increases of 20 percent," he said.

Currently, he said, the logistics costs reached 27 per cent to GDP and 14 percent of sales. The figure is much higher than the United States, Japan, and South Korea. The Government is targeting a 10 percent can degrade before the implementation of the Asean market integration by 2015.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Permanent Committee of the human resources Field and the regulation of Commerce Logistics Indonesia, Akbar was regulations barring implementation highlights Djohan FUEL for transport of goods subsidized type of truck is not coupled with the completion of the FILLING STATION infrastructure.

Up to now, he said, the FILLING STATION infrastructure to allocate subsidies to FUEL the non solar is very limited, especially in some areas. "This situation has been disturbing the smooth running of operations and distribution logistics. Infrastructure should be prepared before the rule was implemented, "said Akbar.

According to him, so far no trade restrictions on subsidized FUEL in question for a truck. However, it should be transparent and without discrimination. Currently, discrimination still occurs, so that gave rise to the area of occurrence of grey allows abuse.

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