Transport Minister to Meet Australia over Ban on Lion Air Flight
1 November 2018 06:10 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi plans to ask the Australian government to clarify its policy banning its officials from traveling by Lion Air flight.
"We will seek clarification since foreign parties have made adjustment about us," he said in the Presidential Palace compounds on Wednesday.
The minister said he will meet Australian authorities to discuss the ban.
Actually, the ban has a small impact because only a few Lion Air planes fly to Australia, while many of Lion Air`s international flights are to Singapore and Malaysia, he said.
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"But that is not the problem. But it is a matter of reputation so we must seek clarification." he said.
The Australian government has banned its officials from traveling by Lion Air flight after the airline company`s plane JT 610 crashed in Tanjung Karawang waters on Monday (Oct. 29).
The Australian government said earlier it will review the ban after the cause of the plane crash is known based on the result of investigation.
The Lion Air plane with flight number JT610 crashed some 15 minutes after take-off from Soekarno-Hatta Airport west of Jakarta on Monday morning.
The aircraft carried 178 adults, three infants, and six crew members, a pilot and a co-pilot.
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