The Indonesian Airline Audit Outcome

An audit of 54 aviation firms revealed that none of them made it to the first of three rating classes, said Budhi Muliawan Suyitno, the director general of civil aviation at the Indonesian Transport Ministry. Twenty airline aviation companies had been put into three rating classes. Fifteen of those companies, including six scheduled passenger airlines, were placed in the lowest category. This mean that they were considered to have met only minimal standards of safety. The National carrier Garuda made it only to second grade. The lowest ranked airlines were AdamAir, Kartika Airlines, Jatayu, Batavia, Trans Wisata Air and Dirgantara (now grounded). "If they are in the third rating, they will receive warnings. If they do not perform within three months, then we will suspend them from services," Suyitno said. The following step would be a complete shutdown of their operations. The audit consisted of 20 criteria, including the effectiveness of the companies' management team, frequency of accidents and compliance with routine audits. The impromptu audit follows a number of fatal airliner accidents in 2006/2007. For related articles see here, here  and here.