Merpati Nusantara the Airline Most Likely to Cancel a Flight

Posted on 2012-02-03 at 00:51:59. Last updated on 2012-02-03 at 00:49:17.

(2/1/2012)

While the Ministry of Transportation has named Lion Air and Sriwijaya Air as the Indonesian airlines with the worst on-time performance, the Ministry has now designated the state-owned airline Merpati Nusantara as the carrier most likely to cancel a flight.

The statistics counting performance between January-November 2011 showed the following carriers, in order of appearance, as most likely to cancel a flight

Merpati Nusantara 9.2% cancellation rat
Sriwijaya Air 4.11% cancellation rate
Lion Air 0.73% cancellation rate
Garuda Indonesia 0.82% cancellation rate
Batavia Air 0.54% cancellation rate
AirAsia (Indonesia) 0.16% cancellation rate

The Corporate Secretary for Merpati Nusantara, Imam Turyadi, told Bisnis Indonesia that the high cancellation rates for flights by his airline do not aversely impact the public. “If Merpati cancels a flight the passengers are moved to another airline if there is another airline serving that route,” explained Imam.

He continued to explain that when there is not an alternative flight operated by a competing carrier, the Merpati passengers are moved to the same flight on a subsequent day.

Imam blamed the cancellations on technical operation issues and bad weather, with poor weather in eastern Indonesia causing many flights to be cancelled.

Source: BaliDiscovery.com