Flight Sightings of Wing Air Pondok Cabe-Purbalingga and Pondok Cabe-Cepu Blora PP

Inidata.id - Chairman of the MPR RI and Legislator of the Golkar Party for the Central Java Region 7 (Purbalingga, Banjarnegara, and Kebumen Regencies) Bambang Soesatyo with Lion Air Group President Director Capt.

Daniel Putut Kuncoro Adi inaugurated and opened the inaugural Lion Group flight using Wings Air, the flight routes of Pondok Cabe - Purbalingga (PP) and Pondok Cabe - Cepu Blora (PP).

He also encouraged the government, particularly Pertamina, to lower the selling price of aviation fuel in Indonesia to be cheaper or at least offset the selling price of aviation fuel in Singapore and Malaysia. Thus, it can create a healthy and competitive business competition.

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Currently, the price of avtur contributes about 30 to 40 percent of aircraft operating costs. So that the high price of avtur causes the selling price of tickets to consumers to be high. As an illustration, the selling price of tickets for the Pondok Cabe - Purbalingga flight route and vice versa, reaches Rp. 1,140,000 per person.

The high price of airline tickets on various other flight routes has also hampered economic recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic. Even though during the pandemic, the aviation industry was the worst business sector. Now that the pandemic has subsided and people are able to travel, the airline industry is again faced with the problem of the high price of avtur.

"Therefore, the government must immediately find a solution, one of which is by considering the private sector and other oil and gas business actors to become Avtur suppliers in the aviation industry," said Bamsoet after inaugurating and opening the inaugural flights of Pondok Cabe - Purbalingga (PP) and Pondok Cabe - Cepu. Blora (PP), at Pondok Cabe Airport, South Tangerang, Friday (5/8/2022).

Also attending were Blora Regent Arief Rohman, Lion Air Group President Director Capt. Daniel Putut Kuncoro Adi, Acting Director of Wings Air Capt. Fitzgerald Julian Rachman, Deputy Commander of the Army Aviation Center Brigadier General Achdwiyanto Yudi Hartono, Assistant Personnel to the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Marsda TNI Elianto Susetio, Director of Air Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation Putu Eka Cahyadi, Deputy for Destination and Infrastructure Development of the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy Vinsensius Jemadu , and Pelita Air CEO Dendy Kurniawan.

He explained that it took no less than three years to have a direct flight from Jakarta to Purbalingga and vice versa. With the presence of this route, the connectivity of the Barlingmascakeb area (Banjarnegara, Purbalingga, Banyumas, Cilacap, and Kebumen), has been difficult to access from and to Jakarta.

Because if you have to use an airplane from Yogyakarta, you must first travel overland for 2 to 3 hours. Take the train from Purwokerto, it takes about 5-6 hours.

"With the Pondok Cabe - Purbalingga (PP) route, travel time can be cut by a flight of no less than one hour," he said.

Blessings of SMEs

He explained that the availability of the Pondok Cabe - Purbalingga (PP) flight route could also attract business and tourist visits, as well as the development of local-based regional transportation. So that it brings blessings to more than 96,000 MSMEs in Purbalingga, including the eyelash and wig industry business players, 71,000 more MSMEs in Banjarnegara, and 40,000 more MSMEs in Kebumen.

As an initial stage, Wings Air will provide the Pondok Cabe - Purbalingga (PP) flight route using ATR 72-600 aircraft once a week. Namely every Friday, with flight code IW-1710, departing at 08.20 WIB from Pondok Cabe and arriving at Purbalingga at 09.30 WIB.