Europe’s ban on Indonesian airlines and Indonesian-registered aircraft has inadvertently made it harder for aircraft to be delivered from European aircraft makers such as Airbus to airlines in Indonesia.

Deputy director of flight standards at Indonesia’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Diding Sunardi, says the EU ban on Indonesian-registered aircraft is the reason why the DGCA has stopped sending inspectors to Europe to inspect aircraft.

Diding says the DGCA used to send inspectors to Europe to inspect aircraft that Indonesian carriers had bought or were planning to lease. After inspection in Europe the aircraft would then be put on the Indonesian aircraft registry and be flown from Europe to Indonesia, he says.

But now the DGCA is unable to do this because the EU ban means there is no way an Indonesian-registered aircraft would be permitted to be flown from Europe to Indonesia, says Diding.

To get around the restriction Indonesian carriers

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