Baliblog readers, DO NOT BOOK TICKETS ON ADAM AIR. Latest news is its probably not going to be around much longer. I had a chance to take a cheap Adam air flight to Batam and declined after they had suffered 2 crashes. Many other people felt the same way and now the Indonesian government is threatening to put them out of business. Laura from Perth lost 4 tickets to Bali when Air Paradise went bust. Here’s more from the Jakarta Post.
Adam Air braces for possible closure after string of plane accidents
JAKARTA (AP): Adam Air was bracing for possible closure Friday after the Indonesian government announced plans to shut down an unspecified local carrier following a string of aviation accidents, officials said.
Director General of Air Transportation Budi Mulyawan Suyitno did not identify the airline that would have its license revoked, saying only that it had recently been plagued by “frequent accidents.”
“We will announce the name next week,” he told Dow Jones news wire, after acknowledging that some companies appeared to be cutting corners by leasing cheap, old planes that are not necessarily air-worthy.Indonesia has recently seen a string of plane accidents this year, two of them deadly.
An Adam Air jetliner plunged into the sea on New Year’s Day, killing 102 people. In February, one of the carrier’s planes broke in half on a hard-landing, causing no injuries. And last week, a Boeing 737 operated by the flag carrier Garuda Indonesia,overshot the runway and burst into flames, killing 21.
