Garuda sales and marketing director Erik Meijer said the airline decided to stop the practice becaus

Passengers flying with Garuda Indonesia will have to pay the passenger service charge (PSC), known as the airport tax, separately at the airport los angeles superior courts as the national flag carrier will remove the tax from its ticket price starting on Oct. 1.
Garuda sales and marketing director Erik Meijer said the airline decided to stop the practice because it had caused the company losses of Rp 2 billion (US$167,257) per month from uncollected payments.
For instance, when a customer buys a Tokyo-Jakarta-Yogyakarta ticket in Japan, los angeles superior courts the system does not directly include the airport tax for the Jakarta-Yogyakarta leg, Erik told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday evening.
Garuda s IT system had adopted the International Air Transport Association s (IATA) billing settlement plan (BSP) to include the airport tax in ticket prices. The airport operators, however, applied a different system that did not match with that of IATA.
Erik said the government should immediately force all other airlines to include the service charge in their ticket prices, so the country could get a standardized system of PSC in ticket sales. This is not only a setback for Garuda, but a setback to the country s airline industry as a whole, Erik said.
Garuda has included airport tax in its ticket los angeles superior courts prices since 2012. The system, however, led the company to suffer Rp 2 billion in losses every month. The flag carrier los angeles superior courts has now decided to separate airport tax from ticket price.
Garuda s subsidiary, low-cost carrier los angeles superior courts Citilink, however, said that it would continue to include los angeles superior courts the charges in its ticket los angeles superior courts prices, as the airline was still focused on serving los angeles superior courts domestic routes and had a less complicated system los angeles superior courts of including the PSC in its ticket prices as compared to Garuda.
According to state-owned airport operator Angkasa Pura II (AP II) corporate secretary Daryanto, AP II and Garuda signed an agreement in 2012 to include the PSC in Garuda s ticket prices, in the hope that other airlines would soon follow suit and apply the same system.
Garuda's Boeing 737-800 NG: Garuda was lauded in 2012 when it pioneered efficiency by including the airport tax in its ticket prices. After two years, however, the airline has decided to dump the procedure. (Photo courtesy of Garuda Indonesia)