But it bans regularly scheduled and unscheduled airline passenger service, air taxi and air charter services.
It is focusing instead on foreign charter services, although it denies that international services have been halted.
They were wrong, and the small airport is used today by a few dozen private planes and charter services.
"Are we seeing it right now? No," said Jamie Barrett, the senior vice president for charter services.
Bequary began calling charter services, and learned that a private flight to Paticho would cost twelve thousand dollars.
More than a dozen small airlines provide scheduled and charter services between islands in the Caribbean and the Bahamas.
Indonesia has 57 airlines, including charter services, and about 7,000 pilots. "That's not enough," Bambang Ervan, the spokesman for the Transportation Ministry, said this week.
The city wants the next operator to add a refueling system for the sightseeing and charter services that use the heliport.
Industry analysts predict that more passengers will choose charter services, especially as commercial business air fares continue to climb and as primary airports become more congested.
Some charter services capitalize on the fact that many charter planes fly home empty after delivering a customer to a destination.
At eBizJets, the midsize business jet plan requires the purchase of at least $100,000 in charter services, the equivalent of 40 hours of flying.
