JAKARTA – Former Garuda Indonesia Commissioner Peter F Gontha opened up about the problems faced by the national airline Garuda Indonesia. He revealed that Garuda owed hundreds of billions to the ticket sales platform, Traveloka.
Peter explained that the debt scheme used was for Garuda to sell tickets through Traveloka. Then, the ticket sales will be taken by Traveloka as a form of payment for Garuda Indonesia’s debt.
“So the tickets have been displayed, so in the future if the tickets are paid for via Traveloka, the money will not be for Garuda, for Traveloka and not for Rp10-Rp20 billion, hundreds of billions. But maybe it has been resolved,” he said in a discussion at the DPR Building, quoted Thursday, December 2.
Furthermore, Peter said this step was taken by Garuda management, because the national airline was having financial difficulties. Peter admitted that he objected to the loan.
“So all this time Garuda has no money. During the last months and I really object to them…