In Reply to: Indo Jet posted by chevys_girl on Sunday, 16. August 2009 at 09:35 Bali Time:
There are aspects of this expanding saga that just don't add-up in my book.
IndoJet (Perth Travel Agent) is now saying that they can not refund payments for useless tickets because "they are awaiting payments from OzJet (in liquidation)".
IndoJet Asia (Bali Division which actually chartered the aircraft from OzJet) would have surely been responsible for payment of Charter Fees to OzJet and NOT IndoJet Perth which is (as they say) purely a Travel Agent selling tickets on behalf of IndoJet Asia.
It would be normal business practice in any charter operation to pay a fixed sum based on contractual arrangements between the Charter Company (IndoJet Asia) and the Airline (OzJet). The Charter Airline would normally have no interest in passenger numbers as their fees would be based on number of flights (at a fixed price per flight)rather than by passenger loadings.
Is the money - which IndoJet Perth says is to be paid by OzJet before they can pay refunds to ticket-holders - coming direct to them by the administrators of OzJet, or would this payment reimbursement from OzJet (assuming that funds are available)be paid initially to IndoJet Asia (who as the Charter Company would have made any payments to OzJet as this would have not been either the role or responsibility of OzJet Perth which is just a ticketing agent on behalf of IndoJet Asia). If any funds were available from the administrators of OzJet and these are sent to IndoJet Asia in Indonesia, I suspect that there would be little chance of these funds filtering-down to IndoJet Perth for client refunds.
It is certainly food for thought.
From the outset following the collapse of OzJet, there appears to have been absolutely no transparency or honesty on the part of IndoJet Perth's Owners/Management. There have been huge discrepancies in what has been conveyed to their ticket-holders - just an ever-increasing period of "flight suspensions" with not even one positive statement being made which could give even a glimmer of hope to their passengers/creditors.
The longer this saga continues the less chance there will be for a good outcome. OzJet really should have no bearing on IndoJet Perth's ability to meet their commitments as they would have had no direct dealings with OzJet. If their clients' monies had been forwarded to IndoJet Asia then this should have been clearly indicated in the first instance.
We know what happened to clients' advance payments for tickets on Air Paradise once their money was transferred from Australia to Bali and "Pak Kadek" got his hands on it. If IndoJet Perth had transferred funds in payment of tickets issued to IndoJet Asia, perhaps this situation could become an "Air Paradise Re-visited".
If you recall, at the time Perth Airport suspended OzJet's operations, OzJet's management claimed that their financial problems had been influenced by monies owed to them by IndoJet (Asia?).