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Aviastar (Indonesia)

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VIT
  
AVIASTAR

Company slogan
  
Fly Safe And Comfort

Headquarters
  
Jakarta, Indonesia

Founded
  
2003

Destinations
  
30

Website
  
www.aviastar.biz

Founder
  
Sugeng Triyono

Fleet size
  
8

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Key people
  
Sugeng Triyono (Chairman) M. Sundoro (President and CEO)

Operating bases
  
Soekarno–Hatta International Airport

PT Aviastar Mandiri, operating as Aviastar is an Indonesian growing domestic passenger airline based in East Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia.

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History

The airline was established on 12 June 2000 by Capt. Sugeng Triyono and his 4 colleagues which started as helicopter charter services company with various leased helicopters. Since 2003 Aviastar began operating fix wing aircraft with 2 units of DeHavilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otters and began to drop its rotary wings operations.

Aviastar now is an established company dealing with air transportation services either for chartered flights or schedule flights and currently operates 4 units of DHC-6-300 and 3 units of BAe 146-200 with plan to order 3 units more of DHC-6-300 to add in its fleet before end of 2013.

Its main operation base is located in Jakarta (CGK) with other operation bases in Palangkaraya (PKY), Balikpapan (BPN), Makassar (UPG), Nabire (NBX) and Denpasar (DPS).

Domestic

  • Samarinda – Samarinda Airport
  • Aviastar also serves 36 routes in commercial and government subsidiary pioneer flights, which the following domestic Indonesian destinations are some of them :

  • Balikpapan - Melak
  • Jakarta - Muara Bungo
  • Jakarta - Ketapang
  • Makassar - Selayar - Bima
  • Makassar - Tana Toraja
  • Palangkaraya - Muara Teweh
  • Palangkaraya - Tumbang Samba
  • Fleet

    The Aviastar fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):

    Accidents and incidents

  • On 9 April 2009, an Aviastar BAe 146-300 PK-BRD, crashed to a mountain near Wamena, Papua, Indonesia, after a failed second approach for landing at Wamena Airport.
  • On 2 October 2015, an Aviastar DHC-6 Twin Otter, registered as PK-BRM, operating Aviastar Flight 7503 with three crew members and seven passengers on board, crashed near Palopo 11 minutes after takeoff. The passengers were 4 adults, 2 children, and 1 baby. There were no survivors.
  • References

    Aviastar (Indonesia) Wikipedia


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