NJS halts services to Christmas Island<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The Darwin-based Australian airline National Jet
\nSystem (NJS) is to terminate all its services to Christmas
\nIsland, a small Australian island in the Indian Ocean, next month
\ndue to sinking demand.<\/p>\n
One of the airline's managers, Debora Avory, told The Jakarta
\nPost yesterday that the last flight to Christmas Island would be
\non Feb. 17.<\/p>\n
The decision means there will be no scheduled flights to the
\nisland from Jakarta after that date.<\/p>\n
\"There are reduced numbers of passengers to the island and we
\ndon't want to lose money by keeping the service,\" Avory said.<\/p>\n
She reiterated that a drop in demand had caused in the
\nsignificant reduction in passenger load on the route.<\/p>\n
NJS currently links Jakarta and Christmas Island three times
\nper week and Singapore and Christmas Island twice a week. NJS
\nserves Jakarta-Christmas Island with BAe-146 aircraft.<\/p>\n
Sempati Air, a domestic air carrier, stopped its service to
\nChristmas Island several years ago due to low demand. The 137-
\nsquare-kilometer Christmas Island, is about 3,000 kilometers
\nnorth of Perth and 500 km south of Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Avory said that NJS would continue its Denpasar-Broome and
\nLombok-Darwin services.<\/p>\n
Christmas Island is popular with Indonesians as a resort there
\nowned by businessman Robby Sumampouw offers gambling, a form of
\nentertainment banned in Indonesia.<\/p>\n
The resort's popularity has declined in the recent years due
\nto ineffective promotion.<\/p>\n
Christmas Island Resort PTY Ltd., the parent company of
\nChristmas Island Resort has appealed to the Supreme Court in
\nWestern Australia to appoint any party except Casino Austria
\nInternational to manage the resort in order to save the property
\nas well as hundreds of its employees.<\/p>\n
The two parties were involved in a dispute after the number of
\nvisitors dropped just a year after the resort opened in 1993. The
\nparent company blamed the operator for neglecting promotion and
\nmaintenance, causing the resort to lose up to US$21.5 million by
\nlast November. (icn)<\/p>",
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