European Union (EU) experts have declared that Indonesia's airline safety progress has been on the right track, Indonesia's aviation chief Budhi Mulyawan Suyitno said on Nov. 9.

A group of experts have visited Indonesia to check the safety standard of the country's airlines ahead of a review of a EU ban on the Indonesia's carriers.

"The airlines are on the right track," Suyitno told a press conference after a meeting of the group with Indonesia Transport Minister Jusman Syafii Djamal at his office.

The director said that what the group had done would positively affect on the relations of Indonesia and the European Union.

The European Union has prepared a report about the safety of the Indonesian airlines that would be delivered to the European Commission and used as a basis for deciding whether to lift the ban on Indonesian airlines imposed in June after a series of aviation accidents this year.

Indonesia would have an opportunity to present its measures to improve aviation safety to the European Commission, which plans to review the ban at its next meeting.

It has banned 51 Indonesian airlines, including national airline Garuda Indonesia.

Indonesia has suffered from rampant airline accidents for the last 10 years, claiming thousands of lives.

At the beginning of this year Adam Air plane with more than 100 people on board lost contact and disappeared in the waters of central Indonesia, and in March a Garuda Indonesia plane with 140 people on board overshot the runway in Yogyakarta province and burst into flames, killing 21 people.