Anticipating The Surge In Homecomers, Garuda Operates Wide-body Aircraft

JAKARTA PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk. is known to be ready to optimize wide-body aircraft (wide body) to anticipate a surge in community mobility during this year's Eid al-Fitr period.

President Director of Garuda Indonesia Irfan Setiaputra said efforts to optimize were also carried out through increasing flight frequency, especially high demand routes.

"We ensure that during this year's Eid homecoming season it can be fulfilled by ensuring that the public's accessibility to air transportation services can run optimally," he said when delivering a press statement on Sunday, April 2.

Irfan explained, Garuda Indonesia Group in the Lebaran period this year recorded a significant increase of up to 45 percent compared to the peak season 2022 period.

The flight capacity of Garuda Indonesia will be optimized on a number of routes that have high demand, including Jakarta - Padang, Jakarta - Semarang, Jakarta - Solo, Jakarta - Yogyakarta, Jakarta Denpasar.

"This step is also aligned with the increase in international flight frequency for both Singapore, Amsterdam, Seoul and Bangkok," he said.

Irfan added that his party projects that in this year's Eid homecoming flow, there will be passenger traffic growth in the range of 15-20 percent compared to the period at the beginning of the year.

However, this number will certainly continue to grow in line with the trend of people traveling near the upcoming holiday.

"For this reason, we will continue to monitor the movement of the community to ensure that the readiness of flight service infrastructure can be fulfilled optimally," he stressed.

In detail, the composition of the availability of Garuda Group seats consists of at least 518,856 seats that will be provided by Garuda Indonesia by operating a number of wide-body aircraft, including Airbus A330-900; Airbus A330-300; and Boeing 777-300ER.

Meanwhile, Citilink will prepare 722,080 seats that will be served, including the Airbus A320-200 fleet.

"We hope that the momentum of Eid in 2023 will also be a form of Garuda Indonesia's transformation into a much more competitive and adaptive airline through the best flight service readiness for service users," he concluded.