NAM Air akan Terbang Perdana Pekan Depan

NAM Air will Conduct Inaugural Flight Next Week

Reporter : Gusmiati Waris
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani


NAM Air akan Terbang Perdana Pekan Depan
Presiden Direktur Sriwijaya Air, Chandra Lie (tengah) dan Presdir NAM Air Jafferson Jauwena (kanan) Foto: B2B/Mya

Jakarta (B2B) - Maskapai penerbangan NAM Air, anak usaha Sriwijaya Air dijadwalkan terbang perdana pada Rabu pekan depan (2/10). Saat ini, NAM Air tengah merampungkan pengurusan izin tahap kedua untuk Air Operate Certificate (AOC) di Kementerian Perhubungan.

"Saya mohon doa restunya agar NAM Air bisa terbang perdana pada 2 Oktober 2013. Apabila ijin AOC bisa keluar sesuai tenggat waktu maka NAM Air akan terbang perdana ke Pangkalpinang, ibukota Bangka Belitung," kata Presiden Direktur Sriwijaya Air, Chandra Lie kepada pers di Jakarta, Kamis (26/9).

Presiden Direktur NAM Air, Jafferson Jauwena mengatakan bahwa NAM Air hadir untuk memenuhi kebutuhan jasa penerbangan medium, yang berfungsi sebagai feeder bagi Sriwijaya Air.

Menurut Jefferson, pihaknya berencana untuk penerbangan perdananya yaitu Jakarta-Pangkalpinang pada Oktober 2013 dengan menggunakan pesawat Boeing 737-500.

"Kami berniat memesan 100 unit pesawat R80 dari PT Ragio Aviasi Industri, sebuah perusahaan nasional, karena kemampuan R80 untuk mendarat di lintasan pendek atau panjang minimal 1.200 meter," kata Jafferson Jauwena.

Jakarta (B2B) - NAM Air, a subsidiary of Sriwijaya Air will conduct inaugural flight on Wednesday next week (2/10). Currently, NAM Air is finalizing the second phase permit to Operate Air Certificate (AOC) in the Ministry of Transportation.

"I beg a prayer blessing NAM Air get permission to conduct inaugural flight on October 2, 2013. If the AOC´s license can get out by the deadline, NAM Air will fly first to Pangkalpinang, the capital of Bangka Belitung," President Director of Sriwijaya Air, Chandra Lie said to the press in Jakarta, Thursday (26/9).

President Director NAM Air, Jafferson Jauwena said that NAM Air operates flight services to meet the needs of the medium class, which serves as a feeder for Sriwijaya Air.

According to Jefferson, it plans for the inaugural flight from Jakarta to Pangkalpinang in October 2013 with a Boeing 737-500.

"We want to order 100 airplanes R80 through PT Ragio Aviation Industry, a national company, because R80 is able to land on short track or runway at least 1,200 meters," Jafferson Jauwena said.