Garuda Indonesia Increases Flight Frequency From Singapore-Bangkok To Seoul To Jakarta

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JAKARTA - Garuda Indonesia's national airline continues to strengthen its commitment to encourage the growth of the national tourism sector.

One of them is through increasing the frequency of international flights to Jakarta from several countries such as Bangkok to Seoul.

President Director of Garuda Indonesia, Irfan Setiaputra, said that through this increase in frequency, Garuda Indonesia began to increase the capacity of flight services on a number of international flight routes to Jakarta.

In detail, Bangkok-Jakarta pp is seven times (from the previous four) per week.

Then, Incheon-Jakarta pp is three times (from the previous two) per week; and Hong Kong-Jakarta pp is six times (from the previous five times) per week.

In addition, continued Irfan, the increase in flight frequency will also be contributed by the operation of Shanghai-Jakarta pp as a new flight route for Garuda Indonesia, which will be served twice per week starting May 17, 2023.

"This additional frequency is apart from being our adaptive step in adjusting our flight operations to public demand, but it is also our effort to support the growth of the national tourism industry," he said in an official statement, Wednesday, May 17.

Garuda Operates 28,000 Flights

Irfan said that through increasing flight frequency on these various international routes, as well as optimizing flight frequency which continues to be carried out on a number of domestic routes, Garuda Indonesia will operate at least 28,000 flights in June 2023.

Irfan said, this figure also represents optimism for the acceleration of Garuda Indonesia's operational performance, after the Company managed to record a growth in the number of flights by 87.75 percent from 7,215 flights in the first quarter of 2022 to 13,546 flights in the first quarter of 2023.

"With international direct flights to and from Jakarta as one of the main entrances to Indonesia, we hope to optimize our role in bridging foreign tourists who want to visit various national leading tourist destinations, which are directly connected to Garuda Indonesia's flight services," he said.

Still, Irfan said, increasing flight frequency is also a projection of our optimism for the performance outlook of Garuda Indonesia in the future, which will continue to be accelerated through the alignment of the capacity base for production equipment with market demand, both passengers and cargo, in the midst of the reopening of access to various countries.

"Thus, in addition to maximizing the potential for foreign tourist visits to Indonesia, it is hoped that this increased flight frequency will also support the development and competitiveness of regional products, MSMEs, and our superior national export commodities," he concluded.