'Banned airline' operator to run Malindo Air?

DAP's conflict against newly-licensed Malaysian carrier Malindo Air continues, this time targeting a association forming a Indonesian half of a brand new airline, saying it is "banned" from drifting in a European Union (EU).

It pronounced a association in question, PT Lion Group, that runs Lion Mentari Air from Indonesia, also has bad reserve operations jot down there.

"Lion Mentari Air is theme to a complete anathema in a European Union since of reserve concerns as well as purported bad maintenance as well as regulatory slip standards on a partial of a EU, preventing them from entering a airspace of any part of state," a party's inhabitant publicity cabinet member Tony Pua pronounced in a press conference in a Parliament lobby today.

The airline, Pua pointed out, is named in theonline listingof airlines banned from handling or drifting in EU.

A check byMalaysiakiniconfirmed that Lion Mentari Airlines is listed in a "List of air carriers of that all operations have been theme to a anathema within a EU".

'Airlines must be vetted first'

Pua also purported that a airlines had troubles during home too.

"Lion Air ran into numerous problems with a Indonesian government regularly over reserve issues," he alleged, explaining that reserve as well as regulatory issues involving Lion Air is a make a difference of open jot down as well as freely accessible from a Aviation Safety network.

Amongst reserve as well as regulatory issues plaguing a ! airline, Pua claimed, are:

• Several Lion Air pilots held for drug use as well as drug possession.
• In July 2011, a airline had to ground thirteen planes due to bad On-Time Performance, its rating of 66.45 percent being a worst out of 6 airlines drifting out of 24 Indonesian airports that year.
• From 2006 to 2010, 3 Lion Air aircrafts crashed after experiencing cryptic landings.

"Any airline, prior to being postulated license, must have been thoroughly vetted to ensure that they have complied with a most difficult global reserve requirements," stated Pua, who questioned because a cryptic airline operator such as PT Lion Group was since a permit to jointly run Malindo Air.

"Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak must explain because was a permit awarded to Malindo in such haste, as well as what was a basement of a award," he asked.

Previously, a DAP attacked a Malaysian association that shaped a alternative half of Malindo, National Aerospace as well as Defence Industries Sdn Bhd, for unwell to contention itsaudited annual accountsto a Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM).

The celebration had questioned because a association was not penalised by a commission as well as because a association that flaunted CCM regulations awarded a license.

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