Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com - Monday, December 29, 2014
Relatives of passengers on a missing AirAsia plane at Juanda Airport, in Surabaya, Indonesia. (EPA/MADE NAGI) For so many years, it came easy to Tony Fernandes, the man now at the center of Indonesia’s latest aviation saga. The chief executive of Air Asia, which on Sunday lost contact with a commercial jet carrying 162 people, took a company he bought for 35 cents and turned it into an aviation juggernaut. It helped bring budget travel to Southeast Asia. And then the Malaysian airline set its sights on the regional jewel: Indonesia. Indonesia is on the move: a fast-growing middle class that ballooned from 80 million to 130 million in the past decade and a sprawl of 17,500 islands where flying is the best travel option. “Indonesia is like a planet,” Fernandes, who opened an Indonesian affiliate and, in 2012, bought a local budget airline for $80 million, told the New York Times. “There’s lots of room to grow.” But for all of its economic potential, Indonesia’s aviation industry remains one of the world’s most hazardous. Numerous accidents and incidents marred the industry’s rapid ascent, and the European Union banned all but five of its 67 airlines from European airspace. The U.S. State Department likewise expressed concern over Indonesia’s aviation practices, and even Indonesia’s civil aviation chief in 2007 called it a “never-ending struggle” to improve the country’s culture and safety practices. There is no explanation yet for
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Relatives of passengers on a missing AirAsia plane at Juanda Airport, in Surabaya, Indonesia. (EPA/MADE NAGI) For so many years, it came easy to Tony Fernandes, the man now at the center of Indonesia’s latest aviation saga. The chief executive of Air Asia, which on Sunday lost contact with a commercial jet carrying 162 people, took a company he bought for 35 cents and turned it into an aviation juggernaut. It helped bring budget travel to Southeast Asia. And then the Malaysian airline set its sights on the regional jewel: Indonesia. Indonesia is on the move: a fast-growing middle class that ballooned from 80 million to 130 million in the past decade and a sprawl of 17,500 islands where flying is the best travel option. “Indonesia is like a planet,” Fernandes, who opened an Indonesian affiliate and, in 2012, bought a local budget airline for $80 million, told the New York Times. “There’s lots of room to grow.” But for all of its economic potential, Indonesia’s aviation industry remains one of the world’s most hazardous. Numerous accidents and incidents marred the industry’s rapid ascent, and the European Union banned all but five of its 67 airlines from European airspace. The U.S. State Department likewise expressed concern over Indonesia’s aviation practices, and even Indonesia’s civil aviation chief in 2007 called it a “never-ending struggle” to improve the country’s culture and safety practices. There is no explanation yet forfrom Top News on RSS Feeds http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/12/29/a-missing-jet-and-the-truth-about-indonesias-troubled-aviation-history/
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