JAKARTA - Welcoming Lebaran 2016, Angkasa Pura Airports has been preparing to anticipate the current density at the time of Lebaran. "To anticipate Lebaran this year, Angkasa Pura Airports has made several efforts, namely the establishment of the post (coordination post), improved service, security, aviation safety," said Operation Director of Angkasa Pura Airports Wendo Asrul Rose, in Media Gathering in Hotel NAM Center, Kemayoran, Jakarta (13/6).
Command Post is divided into two categories, namely the central level (monitoringpost) and the branch level (integrated post). In the formation of integrated post team, Angkasa Pura Airports coordinate with external parties such as the Airport Authority, military, police, CTF, to groundhandling and airlines. Each integrated post at the airport are equipped with CCTV network are connected to the national post in the Ministry of Transportation, and operates from H-12 (June 24, 2016) to D + 10 (July 17, 2016).
"For the improvement of services to passengers, we also have to increase the value added such as the provision of more than 7000 per day takjil to passengers at airports, increased levels of service, make arrangements extra flight, to the operation of Contact Center Bandara172 which operates 24 hours," said Wendo.
This year is expected movement of passengers during Lebaran 2016 as many as 3.7 million passengers, an increase of 4.48% compared to 2015 last. "Estimates of the peak density of passenger transport homecoming Lebaran 2016 is H-5 to H-3, while the reverse flow is D + 3 to D + 4," explains Wendo. Anticipating a surge in passengers, Angkasa Pura Airports also increase airport security personnel from TNI / Polri besera local authorities.
Fix 10 Runway Airport
To improve service and reliability of the air side facilities, Angkasa Pura Airports also undertake a program of runway improvements at 10 airports. The airports are the airports I Gusti Ngurah Rai Bali, Juanda Airport in Surabaya, Sultan Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar, Frans Kaisiepo Airport Biak, Sam Ratulangi Airport in Manado, Syamsudin Noor Airport Banjarmasin, Adisucipto Airport in Yogyakarta, Ahmad Yani Airport in Semarang, Pattimura airport in Ambon, and El Tari Kupang Airport.
"The growth in air traffic volume in Indonesia is high and a large plane loads causing fatigue or runway into a fast break. For example, large airplanes such as the Boeing 777-300, Boeing 747-400 and Airbus 330 has a load that is not in accordance with the design of the original intention of the runway when it was built, so that the structure of the runway damaged quickly," said Wendo.
Therefore, starting in 2014, Angkasa Pura Airports has implemented improvement programs and increased reliability runway facilities at 10 airports. "These improvements are intended to increase the reliability of the facilities of the runway and flight safety. The total budget for these improvements reach 1.16 trillion IDR, with a lead time varying from 3 to 38 months," he said.
