Govt to open one-stop ticketing counters
Govt to open one-stop ticketing counters
JAKARTA (JP): The ministry of Transportation will coordinate cooperation among transportation companies to provide one-stop reservations for packages of various transportation services throughout the country, a senior official says.
Director General for Land Transportation Soejono said yesterday that such cooperation is expected to result in the opening, later this year, of one-stop ticketing counters in major cities in Java and Sumatra. These counters will make reservations and provide tickets for travel packages including train, bus, ferry and air travel.
"The one-stop service counters are expected to assist long- distance travelers whose journeys involve the use of several different types of transport," he said during a ceremony launching a city check-in office of Sempati Air in Senayan, Central Jakarta.
Soejono said that, with the operation of such counters, a passenger from East Java, for example, would buy one ticket in Surabaya to travel by train to Jakarta, by plane from Jakarta to Palembang in South Sumatra and by bus from Palembang to a destination in Sumatra.
Initially, such ticketing counters are likely to be opened in Surabaya in East Java, Jakarta, Palembang in South Sumatra, Medan in North Sumatra and Banda Aceh in Aceh, he told reporters after the ceremony.
He stressed that the operation of such counters would not cause transportation fares to be raised.
To support the one-stop service, his office has instructed Perum Damri, a state bus operator, to establish cooperation with domestic airlines to carry passengers from their city check-in offices to airports.
At yesterday's ceremony, Sempati Air signed an agreement with Perum Damri on the transportation of the airline's passengers from its city check-in office in Senayan to the Soekarno-Hatta Airport in the city's northwest.
Sempati currently operates three other city check-in offices in Surabaya, Manado in North Sulawesi and Balikpapan in East Kalimantan.
Sempati's president, Hasan M. Soedjono, said that his company would soon be opening a new city check-in office in Mangga Dua, North Jakarta, and another in Ujungpandang, South Sulawesi.
He said his company plans to sign a further cooperation agreement with Perum Damri next month for the transportation of its passengers from its check-in offices in Surabaya and Manado to local airports. (fhp)