Manunggal Air Services was an
airline
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based in
Jakarta
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,
Indonesia
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. It operated charter passenger and cargo services within Indonesia and neighbouring regions. Its main base was
Halim Perdanakusuma Airport
Halim or Haleem () is an Arabic masculine given name which means gentle, forbearing, mild, patient, understanding, indulgent, slow to anger.Golziher, Ignaz, ''Muslim Studies'', ed. S.M. Stern (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967), pp. ...
, Jakarta.
History
The airline was established and started operations in 1997.
In March 2007 the Indonesian transport ministry, under huge political pressure to improve air safety in Indonesia, warned it would close seven airlines unless they improved training and maintenance within the following three months. The ministry developed a formula for ranking the airlines in three bands. Those in the third (least safe) band were:
Adam Air,
Batavia Air,
Jatayu Airlines,
Kartika Airlines, Manunggal Air Services,
Transwisata Prima Aviation and
Tri-MG Intra Asia Airlines.
Destinations
Before its closing, the airline offered the following destinations:
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Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport-
Jakarta
Jakarta (; , Betawi language, Betawi: ''Jakartè''), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (; ''DKI Jakarta'') and formerly known as Batavia, Dutch East Indies, Batavia until 1949, is the capital and largest city of Indonesia and ...
hub
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Ketapang Airport-
Ketapang
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Supadio Airport-
Pontianak
*
Wamena Airport-
Wamena
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Mopah Airport-
Merauke
Fleet
The Manunggal Air Service fleet consisted of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):
The airline previously operated the following aircraft (as of June 2012):
* 1
British Aerospace 146
The British Aerospace 146 (also BAe 146) is a short-haul and regional airliner that was manufactured in the United Kingdom by British Aerospace, later part of BAE Systems. Production ran from 1983 until 2001. Avro International Aerospace manufa ...
-100
* 2
Transall C-160 (PK-VTP and PK-VTQ)
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Antonov An-26B
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Fokker F28 Fellowship
The Fokker F28 Fellowship is a twin-engined, short-range jet airliner designed and built by Netherlands, Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker.
Following the Fokker F27 Friendship, an early and commercially successful turboprop-powered regional air ...
Incidents and accidents
* On 11 June 1999, 5 minutes after takeoff the ATC lost contact with a Kamov helicopter. Two hours later the helicopter was reported missing and ATC started searching. The helicopter was found crashed inland of Irian Jaya. One person was killed and five people were injured.
* On 15 June 2001 a Transall C-160NG (registered ''PK-VTP'') was heavily damaged after landing at Jayapura-Sentani Airport
* On 6 March 2008 their other Transall C-160NG (registered ''PK-VTQ'') was destroyed on landing. All the plane's occupants survived.
Aviation Safety incident entry
- ''Aviation Safety Network''
References
Defunct airlines of Indonesia
Airlines established in 1997
Airlines disestablished in 2015
Airlines formerly banned in the European Union
1997 establishments in Indonesia
Cargo airlines of Indonesia
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