EU auditing Indonesian airlines
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The Jakarta Post said the team is auditing Garuda Indonesia, Mandala Airlines and charter company Prime Air.
“We will be open and will provide any information requested by the audit team,” PT. Garuda Indonesia spokesman Pujobroto was quoted telling Detik.com.
The EU prohibited all Indonesian air carriers from entering European countries on July 6, although there were no Indonesian airlines flying to European countries at the time. Garuda was planning to resume flights to the Netherlands just before the ban, the Post said.
European tourists have canceled their trips to Indonesia because of the ban because the prohibition meant that tourism agencies were obliged to advise their customers that Indonesian airlines were unsafe.
A meeting in July decided an audit team would be sent to Indonesia this month, giving it three months to make all the necessary improvements, the newspaper said. Saudi Arabia had also planned to join the EU in banning Indonesian airlines. But a team it sent to Indonesia in August, cleared Garuda to enter the country.
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