 The EU banned all Indonesian airlines from European territory in 2007, after the crash of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200.Aviation writer William Langewiesche wrote that "many of the ordinary Indonesians who had grown to hate their airlines were in favor of the ban simply as a form of punishment", that the ban put aircraft manufacturers "into a delicate position" as they would be selling to firms declared unsafe in the West, and that since Indonesian airlines were mainly focused on the Southeast Asian market, "The ban was largely symbolic".The ban has since been lifted.