Labor Day, The Airport Blocked, Passengers Can Have

Employees of Aerowisata Catering Services, Aerofood services provider catering to airline kites do work ahead of the strike action May Day at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Tangerang, Banten, (7/4). 

Finance Info -AirAsia Airline asked passengers who have flights schedule tomorrow, 1 may 2013, arrived at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport earlier. Public relations manager of Air Asia, Audrey Progastama, said the request was made to anticipate the presence of blocking access roads that do mass labor in commemorating the World labor day tomorrow, which is commonly called May day.

"This Afternoon we already inform passengers to come earlier," said Audrey when you call the other, Tuesday, April 30, 2013.

According to Audrey, requests to passengers to arrive earlier also addressed to passengers who have flight schedules during the day. "All passengers, have scheduled morning flights. Passengers with flight of the day and the afternoon our imbau also, "he said.

However, Audrey pleads will not suffer losses due to the labor action by doing the blocking. According to him, flight schedules remain running as usual. "There is no Harm, because the more the passenger only. Different times of access roads closed due to flooding, have to provide compensation to passengers who are late to the airport, "he said.

Meanwhile, airlines, Sriwijaya Air admitted to not menghawatirkan the existence of labor action in commemorating May day tomorrow. "Flight schedules as normal, there is no significant anticipation," said spokesman Sriwijaya, Agus Sujono.

He assured labor rallies will not interfere with the schedule penerbagan in Soekarno-Hatta Airport. "We believe the current only, but for the uninitiated there are losses or not because it has not happened. If there is any compensation for passengers who are too late, "he said.

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Throughout January, carried 1.5 million passengers in VAIN

Heru Abraham -Sindo Newspaper

Sindonews.com -airline Singapore Airlines (SIA) throughout the month of January 2013 growth year on year (yoy) of 2.5 per cent to 1.5 million people.

Public Relations Manager of Singapore Airlines, Glory Henriette said, the company also recorded a growth of 3.4 percent in yoy system-wide passenger transport (measured in revenue passenger kilometres).

"While capacity (measured in available seat kilometers) it grew by 1.7 percent. Therefore, the degree of filling for passenger (passengers load factor/PLF) increased by 1.3 points to 78,3 percent, "said Glory in its release in Jakarta, Wednesday (20/2/2013).

For the level of passenger increased field across the region except in the South West Pacific area, where demand growth does not correspond to an increase in capacity. Income per passenger is expected to remain in the pressure as a result of promotional activities are carried out.

Meanwhile, the number of passengers carried by SilkAir overall experience an increase of 2.5 per cent in year on year, compared with the growth of 15.6 percent. Therefore, the PLF suffered a decline of 8.7 points.

"Due to the shift in the Lunar New Year holidays from January to February this year, the rate of passengers for the route field East Asia declined by 10.5 percent, and the rate of points filling in for West Asian routes passengers declined by 4.5 percentage points due to increased passenger traffic does not correspond to an increase in capacity," said Glory.

Overall cargo traffic (measured in freight tonne-kilometers-) increased by 3.0 percent year on year, while cargo capacity decreased by 0.8 percent. Therefore, the percentage level of filling of cargo (cargo load factor/CLF) in January 2013 increased by 2.2 percent points.

The level of cargo for the whole field of routes the increase unless the Americans, which increased cargo capacity does not correspond to an increase in cargo traffic. The level of increased cargo stuffing in the Southwest Pacific, caused by the movement of the carriage of goods was not durable, seasonal welcome the Lunar New Year holiday.

"While the percentage level of cargo to the field of Western Asia and Africa are increasing due to the growing demand for cargo services," explains Glory.

(rna)

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