Garuda Crash last March - News report

Craig Welch wrote:
Ned said:

Craig Welch wrote:
Ned said:

Howard Government, and especially Downer's craven
cowardice.
They could force release of the withheld evidence which
would enable prosecution in an instant if they chose to
limit Garuda flights to Oz.
How?
I assume that is a trick question, the point of which
quite eludes me.

How would the Government be able to force the Indonesian
Government to release evidence?


By exerting economic pressure via a threat to implement the
same kind of airline bans as the EU, UK and US have done.

These bans have already impacted on the Indonesian economy
and faced with a choice between more of the same or hanging
the pilot out to dry they would cough soon enough.

"EU ban on Indonesian airlines hurting tourism
5 August 2007
As the country reels under economic, political and
environmental troubles, Indonesia has a new burden to
shoulder: an airlines’ ban that has a direct impact on its
tourism.
The European Union officially banned all 51 Indonesian
airlines from flying to Europe starting on July 6, while the
US Federal Aviation Administration in April declared
Indonesia had failed to comply with international safety
standards.
Indonesia has dozens of low-cost airlines following the
deregulation of the industry in the late 1990s, leading to a
quadrupling of passenger numbers over the past seven years.
But its air-safety record has been under fire following two
commercial airline crashes that killed 123 people this year
alone.
EU’s Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot said the
blacklist is considered an important tool in preventing
unsafe airlines from flying to Europe and in informing
passengers worldwide of safety problems.
“Honestly, the blacklist itself is not surprising since we
have had many airline accidents recently,” Indonesian
Transport Ministry Director General for Aviation Budi
Mulyawan Suyitno said.
“Although there is no direct impact - because no Indonesian
airlines have been flying to Europe since 2004 - we will
improve our safety measures for Indonesian airlines,” he said.
Even so, the Indonesian government had earlier ignored two
letters of inquiry the EU sent to the transport ministry,
before it decided to blacklist the country’s airlines.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono immediately
expressed disappointment at the ban, calling it “the
European Union’s unilateral action,” and demanding more room
for dialogue.
Transport Minister Jusman Djamal mulled a tit-for-tat action
by hinting at the option of restricting access to its
airspace for EU planes, or of advising its citizens not to
fly with European airlines.
But the latter invitation is likely to fall on deaf ears, as
many polls conducted by local media show that most
Indonesians are in fact worried about flying with their
national airlines due to their poor safety records.
“I demand the government improve the quality and safety of
our transportation immediately,” Laksmindra Setyawati, 30,
an employee with an international NGO in Jakarta said.
Although government officials downplayed the impact, the
EU’s ban has already begun hurting tourism.
“European Union’s airline ban has definitely put a burden on
Indonesian tourism, especially now that it’s the summer
high-season for tourist arrivals,” Bali Tourism Board
chairman Ngurah Wijaya said. “I know many tourists have
cancelled their visits.
“It will not only affect tourist arrivals, but will also
hurt Indonesia’s economy, because it will decrease hotel
occupancy rates, souvenir sales, and other things related to
tourism,” Wijaya said.
Indonesia has set a target of six million foreign visitors
for this year and eight million in 2009 nationwide. The
country had missed its tourist-arrival target of 5.5 million
in 2006, registering 4.8 million foreign visitors for the year.
To help sweeten the package for foreigners, the government
has allowed the citizens of 63 countries to be granted visas
on arrival in the archipelago nation.
But the European Union contributes about 25 percent of
tourist to the resort island of Bali alone, with as many as
600,000 European tourists visiting the country each year.
“European tourists are in fact important to Indonesian
tourism,” Wijaya said. "

http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=76536

On Oct 25, 10:17 pm, Ned wrote:
Craig Welch wrote:

Ned said:

Craig Welch wrote:
Ned said:

Howard Government, and especially Downer's craven
cowardice.
They could force release of the withheld evidence which
would enable prosecution in an instant if they chose to
limit Garuda flights to Oz.
How?
I assume that is a trick question, the point of which
quite eludes me.

How would the Government be able to force the Indonesian
Government to release evidence?


By exerting economic pressure via a threat to implement the
same kind of airline bans as the EU, UK and US have done.

These bans have already impacted on the Indonesian economy
and faced with a choice between more of the same or hanging
the pilot out to dry they would cough soon enough.

"EU ban on Indonesian airlines hurting tourism
5 August 2007
As the country reels under economic, political and
environmental troubles, Indonesia has a new burden to
shoulder: an airlines' ban that has a direct impact on its
tourism.
The European Union officially banned all 51 Indonesian
airlines from flying to Europe starting on July 6, while the
US Federal Aviation Administration in April declared
Indonesia had failed to comply with international safety
standards.
Indonesia has dozens of low-cost airlines following the
deregulation of the industry in the late 1990s, leading to a
quadrupling of passenger numbers over the past seven years.
But its air-safety record has been under fire following two
commercial airline crashes that killed 123 people this year
alone.
EU's Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot said the
blacklist is considered an important tool in preventing
unsafe airlines from flying to Europe and in informing
passengers worldwide of safety problems.
"Honestly, the blacklist itself is not surprising since we
have had many airline accidents recently," Indonesian
Transport Ministry Director General for Aviation Budi
Mulyawan Suyitno said.
"Although there is no direct impact - because no Indonesian
airlines have been flying to Europe since 2004 - we will
improve our safety measures for Indonesian airlines," he said.
Even so, the Indonesian government had earlier ignored two
letters of inquiry the EU sent to the transport ministry,
before it decided to blacklist the country's airlines.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono immediately
expressed disappointment at the ban, calling it "the
European Union's unilateral action," and demanding more room
for dialogue.
Transport Minister Jusman Djamal mulled a tit-for-tat action
by hinting at the option of restricting access to its
airspace for EU planes, or of advising its citizens not to
fly with European airlines.
But the latter invitation is likely to fall on deaf ears, as
many polls conducted by local media show that most
Indonesians are in fact worried about flying with their
national airlines due to their poor safety records.
"I demand the government improve the quality and safety of
our transportation immediately," Laksmindra Setyawati, 30,
an employee with an international NGO in Jakarta said.
Although government officials downplayed the impact, the
EU's ban has already begun hurting tourism.
"European Union's airline ban has definitely put a burden on
Indonesian tourism, especially now that it's the summer
high-season for tourist arrivals," Bali Tourism Board
chairman Ngurah Wijaya said. "I know many tourists have
cancelled their visits.
"It will not only affect tourist arrivals, but will also
hurt Indonesia's economy, because it will decrease hotel
occupancy rates, souvenir sales, and other things related to
tourism," Wijaya said.
Indonesia has set a target of six million foreign visitors
for this year and eight million in 2009 nationwide. The
country had missed its tourist-arrival target of 5.5 million
in 2006, registering 4.8 million foreign visitors for the year.
To help sweeten the package for foreigners, the government
has allowed the citizens of 63 countries to be granted visas
on arrival in the archipelago nation.
But the European Union contributes about 25 percent of
tourist to the resort island of Bali alone, with as many as
600,000 European tourists visiting the country each year.
"European tourists are in fact important to Indonesian
tourism," Wijaya said. "

http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=76536

Don't standards mattter in air travel????