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QZ8501: Tony denies admitting AirAsia not allowed to fly Surabaya-Singapore route

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Astro Awani
07/01/2015
08:37 MYT
QZ8501: Tony denies admitting AirAsia not allowed to fly Surabaya-Singapore route
AirAsia Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes has never admitted that AirAsia Indonesia has no permit to fly the Surabaya-Singapore route.
AirAsia Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes has never admitted that AirAsia Indonesia had no permit to fly the Surabaya-Singapore route.
According to The Straits Times, Fernandes in a press statement stressed that they had the rights to fly the route.
“We have the rights to fly the Surabaya-Singapore route. We have flown according to schedule and have the rights to fly for seven days a week.
"We have secured both slots as well as approval from both Indonesia and Singapore. What happened was purely an administrative error," said Fernandes.
The statement was released following a report in an Indonesian news portal that claimed Fernandes had admitted that AirAsia Indonesia has no permit to fly the Surabaya-Singapore route, to its transport minister Ignasius Jonan.
On Jan 2, Indonesian Transport Ministry suspended the airline's Surabaya-Singapore route for violating the operational hours.
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