Mahan Air

Post by **Condoking** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:00 pm

chelsea wrote:Also there were reports here in Australia that all Indonesian airlines (Inc Guruda) were all going to be banned by the EU

It was also reported that Saudi Arabia would follow suit with Garuda as they use EU guidelines, which should make this years exodus from Indonesia to Mecca challenging

Post by **chelsea** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:21 pm

Have not heard any updates from the original news item re Garuda, will update the info if I see anymore soon

Post by **caller** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:49 pm

Garuda and all Indonesian airlines have been banned from the UK. Weeks ago.

Post by **housedoctor** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 6:43 pm

Now that is constructive & informative. Mahan Air prices for business class travel was incredibly low. In reading their company profile they certainly suggested that they satisfied all safety regulation criteria. I felt it was worth investigating further. What better way than a forum. Now we all know. Well done. Touch down on Saturday(EVA Air flight) & look forward to a jar or two in Billy's. Kop Khun Krapp

Post by **JimboPSM** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:23 am

In addition to any maintenance concerns, real or apparent, in these days of heightened international tensions there are other risks to consider when travelling through this part of the world.

Hopefully this kind of incident can never happen again, but the technology to prevent it (and/or people using it) was there and it failed:

http://www.history.com/exhibits/militar ... _iasd.html