Banned from European Skies
The ban on Indonesian airlines flying to Europe calls for a wise, not reactionary, response. There must be continuous efforts to improve safety standards.
July 3, 2007
FROM Brussels, Belgium, came the unhappy news: the skies of the European Union are closed to all Indonesian airlines. This is embarrassing. There are around 150 airlines banned from Europe, and 51 of them, or a third, come from Indonesia.
We should not only be embarrassed, we should be concerned. The European Union Transport Commission, which applied the ban, said that it was because our airplanes were unsafe. Even more worrying is that the Comm
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