The government decided Halim Perdanakusuma airport will re-use is optimized for the use of commercial passenger aircraft in an effort to reduce the burden currently experienced by the Soekarno-Hatta airport.
"The burden of Soekarno-Hatta airport is now very crowded, so need to look for alternatives to optimize the Halim airport," said the vice president's spokesman told the press Yopie Hidayat, said here on Thursday.
That said after he was attending a meeting to discuss marine transportation security, land and air, led by vice president who also attended by three ministries Djoko Suyanto, SOE Minister Mustafa Abubakar, as well as a number of other high officials.
According to him, this step is a short-term measures to reduce the burden of Soekarno-Hatta airport and to the rules are being prepared. Halim airport Change function is one of the vice president asked to step in improving air transport safety.
Expenses Soekarno-Hatta airport, he said, has exceeded the limit given the number of passengers per year to reach 30 million per year, and next year is expected to reach 40 million passengers, the capacity of 22 million passengers per year.
While Seokarno Hatta airport expansion plan can only be realized in 2013-2015, because they still require land acquisition. VP assign relevant agencies to conduct negotiations with the TNI Air Force and other agencies to open a commercial flight at the Halim Perdanakusuma it.
During this Halim airport is only used for the benefit of military aviation, the presidency, aircraft leases, and short routes such as Jakarta-Bandung.
Soekarno-Hatta Airport runway will be built one again so that will have a third runway and a terminal will be built again so that it will have four terminals. Indonesia Today
