G20, PA I Prepare 11 support airports for parking Heads of State aircraft

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) or AP I prepare eleven aircraft parking support airports for High Level Conference (KTT) delegates G20 in Bali.

“A total of nine AP I airports plus three AP II airports are used” parking racksaid Faik Fahmi, President of PA I, during the BUMN RUMPI event at the SOE Ministry Media Center in Central Jakarta on Monday, November 7, 2022.

Support airports include Zainuddin Abdul Madjid Airport, Lombok; Juanda Airport, Surabaya; Sultan Hasanuddin Airport, Makassar; Syamsuddin Noor Airport, Banjarmasin; and Yogyakarta International Airport, Kulon Progo.

Also, there are Sultan Aji Muhammad Sulaiman Sepinggan Airport, Balikpapan; General Ahmad Yani Airport, Semarang; Adi Soemarmo Airport, Solo; Soekarno Hatta Airport, Tangerang; Banyuwangi Airport; and Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in Jakarta.

In I Gusti Ngurah Rai AirportFIRE using 14 parking rack for landing VVIP aircraft. While regular flights are prepared 22 parking rack.

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“With the arrangement movement Here, for the commercial, we will put it at 32. per hour movement now it’s 17 movement because we will allocate the rest to VVIP,” Faik said.

Faik also explained that all the planes of all the heads of state present were not accommodated in order to be able to do so. spend the night (RON) or stay at I Gusti Ngurah Rai. The plane can sleep elsewhere. This means that after lowering the passengers, there are planes that go directly to the support airports that have been prepared.

“As far as the regulations of countries where to park, it is regulated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hopefully with the simulations that we have done with our operational readiness actors, we can do it well at the time of its implementation,” Faik said.

Faik explained that there were 20 G20 heads of state who were present. They are Australia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Canada, South Africa, France, UK, Germany, China, India, the United States of America, Italy. In addition, Argentina, Russia, Brazil, the European Union and Mexico.

The summit also invited leaders from non-members, namely Singapore, Cambodia, Spain, United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, Senegal, Finland, Suriname and Fiji. There were also ten additional VVIP guests, namely the President of Zambia, the President of Angola, the President of South Sudan, the Prime Minister of Denmark, Queen Maxima, the President of FIFA, the President of CIO, the Atlantic Council, Elon Musk and the World Economic Forum.

With so many VVIP guests, Faik said, FIRE must handle delegation flights and landings well. In addition, there are regular flights. “Unlike the G20 in Rome, all presidential delegations landed at three airports. But for now only one airport, namely Bali’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport,” Faik said.

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