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Old 23rd Mar 2014, 01:56
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Alexander de Meerkat
 
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Another two-bit, rock bottom, abysmal airline with truly dreadful standards of safety. Although it does not operate to the EU, it is on their list of banned airlines. The list of air carriers banned in the European Union is a blacklist which includes airlines from countries with safety concerns due to alleged poor maintenance and regulatory oversight standards on the part of the EU, preventing them from entering the airspace of any member state. The first version of the list was published in 2006, on the legal basis of the Regulation No. 474/2006 of the European Commission, issued on 22 March of that year. The current version of the list was published on 10 July 2013. I cannot see any time soon when they will leave that list. The truth is that Indonesia is not fit to run a commercial aviation operation but does so anyway. They are so far behind western standards of safety that it is embarrassing - not that such criticisms seem to concern them unduly. Such is the nature of flying in that part of the world.
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