Planes prepare for take off and land at I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali. The airport will serve 724 extra flights for this year’s holiday season. - Jakarta Post/ANN
JAKARTA, April 19 (Jakarta Post/ANN): Indonesia’s domestic and international flight volume is projected to fully recover by 2026, mainly assuming outbreak containment goes as planned, according to a recent key study.
Domestic flight volume is expected to recover to pre-pandemic levels in 2024 while international volumes in 2026, according to the study conducted by Padjadjaran University (UNPAD) and commissioned by the Indonesia National Air Carrier Association (INACA).
UNPAD researchers explained on Thursday the projections assumed that Indonesia successfully completed its second phase vaccination program of 38.87 million citizens by March 2022 and that most of Asia, Europe and the United States optimized their vaccination programmes by that same year, as per schedule.
The chairman of the
Indonesia National Air Carrier Association (INACA), ) Denon Prawiraatmadja is calling on the Indonesian government to provide incentives to the National aviation industry to recover from the
COVID-19 pandemic.
NusaBali and the
State News Agency Antara, Prawiraatmadja said on Friday, 26 February 2021: “To restore health to the aviation sector, tax incentives and reduced airport use tariffs are needed.”
The INACA chairman stated that aviation demands serious attention from the government because this sector of the economy contributes more than 2.6% of Indonesia’s gross domestic product that provides around some 4.2 million jobs.
Denon complained while all Indonesian aviation operators filed a request in March 2020 for incentives to the