{"id":10549,"date":"2009-01-29T01:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/garuda-indonesia-to-operate-18-new-routes-in-2009-2\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T01:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T01:35:00","slug":"garuda-indonesia-to-operate-18-new-routes-in-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/01\/garuda-indonesia-to-operate-18-new-routes-in-2009-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Garuda Indonesia to operate 18 new routes in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Continuing with business development measures, in 2009 Garuda Indonesia will operate at least 18 new routes in both the domestic and regional sectors, while the arrival of 14 new B 737 NGs (New Generation) starting in mid 2009 will help to realize the airline\u2019s network expansion plans.<\/p>\n

The proposed routes are as follows:<\/p>\n

1. Jakarta – Tanjungkarang (Lampung)<\/p>\n

2. Jakarta – Malang (East Java)<\/p>\n

3. Jakarta \u2013 Makassar \u2013 Kendari (Southeast Sulawesi)<\/p>\n

4. Jakarta \u2013 Makassar \u2013 Gorontalo<\/p>\n

5. Jakarta \u2013 Makassar \u2013 Sorong (Papua)<\/p>\n

6. Jakarta \u2013 Makassar \u2013 Ambon<\/p>\n

7. Jakarta \u2013 Makassar \u2013 Palu (Central Sulawesi)<\/p>\n

8. Jakarta – Jambi (Jambi)<\/p>\n

9. Jakarta – Manado \u2013 Ternate (Southeast Maluku)<\/p>\n

10. Jakarta – Balikpapan \u2013 Tarakan<\/p>\n

11. Jakarta \u2013 Pangkal Pinang<\/p>\n

12. Denpasar \u2013 Lombok (West Nusa Tenggara)<\/p>\n

13. Denpasar \u2013 Kupang (East Nusa Tenggara)<\/p>\n

14. Denpasar \u2013 Adelaide (Australia)<\/p>\n

15. Denpasar \u2013 Hongkong<\/p>\n

16. Surabaya \u2013 Hongkong<\/p>\n

17. Jakarta \u2013 Shanghai (China) \u2013 Denpasar \u2013 Jakarta<\/p>\n

18. Yogyakarta \u2013 Singapore.<\/p>\n

While some of the routes are \u2018new services\u2019, others are \u2018old routes\u2019 that will be re-opened in stages.<\/p>\n

For the Yogyakarta \u2013 Singapore route, Garuda Indonesia began services on December 16, 2008 flying three times a week, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Meanwhile, with the increase of Chinese tourists to the country, Garuda Indonesia changed its Jakarta \u2013 Shanghai \u2013 Jakarta service to Jakarta \u2013 Shanghai \u2013 Denpasar \u2013 Jakarta, effective from December 20, 2008, thus enabling travelers from China to fly direct to Denpasar.<\/p>\n

Other routes, such as Jakarta \u2013 Tanjungkarang, Jakarta \u2013 Malang, and Jakarta \u2013 Makassar \u2013 Kendari in the domestic sector and international flights from Surabaya to Hongkong and Denpasar to Hongkong will be opened in mid January 2009 and served seven times a week.<\/p>\n

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Garuda Indonesia President & CEO, Emirsyah Satar explained that by 2013 Garuda Indonesia\u2019s aircraft fleet is expected to grow by threefold with a total of 128 aircraft, thanks to new fleet additions comprising 50 B 737NGs and 10 B 777-300ERs, and arriving in 2009, as well as the ongoing aircraft revitalization measures that will gradually replace old aircraft with more sophisticated and efficient ones. At present, Garuda Indonesia operates 54 modern jet aircraft, consisting of three wide body B 747-400 aircraft, six A-330s, and six Boeing 737 NGs, as well as 39 narrow body aircraft of the Boeing 737 series. \u201cBacked by 128 aircraft, in 2013 Garuda Indonesia will make a \u201cquantum leap\u201d into the future\u201d, Emirsyah further added.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, to accommodate the rising flow of travelers during the long Christmas and New Year holidays which extends from December 22, 2008 until January 04, 2009, Garuda Indonesia has increased its seating capacity to over 29 thousand seats to various destinations, such as Jakarta \u2013 Denpasar (18.650 seats) , Jakarta \u2013 Makassar (1.248 seats), Jakarta \u2013 Singapore (1.024 seats), Jakarta \u2013 Hongkong (3.516 seats), Denpasar \u2013 Singapore (898 seats), and Denpasar \u2013 Surabaya (854 seats).<\/p>\n

During the recent Christmas holidays (December 22 \u2013 27, 2008), Garuda Indonesia achieved 85% to 95% in seat load factor. The flow of returning travelers from January 1 till January 5, 2008 also experienced a rise of up to 95% with services to several destination cities, such as Denpasar, Medan, and Yogyakarta experiencing a super peak in passenger flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing with business development measures, in 2009 Garuda Indonesia will operate at least 18 new routes in both the domestic and regional sectors, while the arrival of 14 new B 737 NGs (New Generation) starting in mid 2009 will help to realize the airline\u2019s network expansion plans. The proposed routes are as follows: 1. Jakarta […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}