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Indonesia to open route to Singapore
JAKARTA - Jatayu Airlines is
planning to cover the regional market by opening its
Surabaya-Singapore route with transits in Batam and
Medan on December 19.
"From Surabaya we fly at
6:45 am to Batam. Then, with the same plane, [we fly] to
Medan and on to Singapore by Boeing 727-200, which has a
capacity of 150 seats," the airline company's commercial
manager Agus Sugiarto said in Jakarta on Tuesday.
Agus, who was in Surabaya for an introduction of
the new route to the public in Surabaya and surrounding
areas, said that in the first stage Jatayu will cover
the new route once every day at a promotional rate,
especially for the Batam-Medan and Medan-Singapore
route.
"On the Surabaya-Batam route, we are the
pioneers, because in the past passengers wishing to fly
to Batam must first make a transit call in Jakarta. The
present schedule is therefore time-saving," Agus said.
In the meantime, the flight from Singapore will
start at 2:45 pm and arrive in Surabaya at 7:25 pm after
a transit call in Medan and Batam.
Agus said the
new route will not only serve tourists, but also
Indonesian migrant workers on their way to Batam,
Singapore and Malaysia.
In the past, Indonesian
migrant workers in Singapore had difficulties in getting
home to Surabaya. They first had to make a transit call
in Jakarta. But on this flight, this factor is
eliminated, Agus said.
In the first stage,
Jatayu projected its occupancy rate on the new route at
70-75 percent. "We will try to expand our market in the
next three months. If everything goes fine, the flight
frequency may be raised," Agus said.
(Asia
Pulse/Antara)
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