INACA opposes FedEx flights

INACA opposes FedEx flights

JAKARTA (JP): The Indonesian Air Carriers' Association (INACA)
said on Thursday that direct flights by U.S. air cargo giant
Federal Express (FedEx) to Jakarta threatened the country's
airline industry and freight forwarders.

"I ask the government to allow FedEx to fly only to Jakarta
airport and not to any other airports (in the country)," INACA's
chairman Soelarto Hadisoemarto said.

He said he had heard that FedEx was planning to try to control
air freight on Java island by investing in airport warehouses,
container and other cargo transport vehicles.

He said domestic freight forwarders such as PT Cardig Air and
PT Angkasa Pura already had warehouses at major airports and
FedEx investments would undermine the domestic operators.

FedEx inaugurated five flights a week to Jakarta airport from
its Asia-Pacific hub in Subic Bay in the Philippines on Wednesday
after several years of negotiations on the rights.

Soelarto said the government had said foreign air cargo
flights were not to be allowed to fly to Indonesia, except to
Batam island, Riau.