A Flight to Krui Will Cost Rp.700.000

The scheme to run Krui airport, south Sumatera, for commercial flight will soon be materialized.

The meeting between the local government of Lampung Barat district and Susi Air, the airline which will hold the flights, in Jakarta, Tuesday (February 28) has made an agreement on the schedule of the flights and the tariff of the ticket the local government has to pay to support the passengers. 

The head of the Department of Local Revenue of Lampung Barat district Sudarto confirmed via his cell phone yesterday that he and the head of the Department of Transportation of Lampung Barat Sekhudin and a local figure of Lampung Barat Oking Ganda Miharja had held a meeting with the representatives of the airline in Jakarta. He also confirmed that the meeting had discussed the preparation of both parties regarding the incoming commercial flights. 

He said that they had made an agreement that Susi Air airplanes will fly 100 hours a month. The flight ticket from Jakarta to Krui will cost Rp.700.000, and will take off at 14.00, while the flight form Krui to Jakarta will take off at 09.00 every day. The flight from Krui to Bandarlampung will be held every Monday, Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday, and the ticket will cost Rp.485.000. 

Susi Air will deploy small airplanes with 12 seats, eight of which will be paid by the local government of Lampung Barat on each flight basis.

“At the beginning, the local government proposed 150 hours of flight a month, but then we agreed on 100 hours. The ticket cost which was initially planned for Rp.1.100.000 then went off to Rp.700.000. And from the 12 seats available, four of which will be subsidized by the airline.”

Next, Sudarto said, the agreement will be submitted to the regent of Lampung Barat district for further discussion.

From Lampung Post