Some delegates use private jets

Some delegates use private jets

Not all delegates for the current UN meeting on sustainable development in Bali utilized scheduled commercial flights to get to Bali, as some chose to fly in their own private jets.

On Tuesday morning, the Ngurah Rai International Airport received a delegate's private jet, a Boeing 737-200.

"It is the private jet of Saudi Arabia's delegate. Tonight, we will receive another private jet, a Falcon 900 aircraft of the Italian delegate," the Airport Authority chief IGM Dhordy said.

Dhordy disclosed that the Airport Authority had been prepared for the visits of such private jets. The airport has space for 38 planes, including large ones.

"We have reserved twelve of those 38 spaces for private jets belonging to the delegates for the meeting," he told The Jakarta Post.

Dhordy had also already asked the neighboring Djuanda Airport in Surabaya, East Java, and Selaparang Airport in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara, to prepare their facilities in case the number of the incoming private jets exceeded the space available at Ngurah Rai.

"But, it turns out that as of today only two private jets have arrived. And so far I have not received any requests for landing clearance from any other private jets," he said.