International Route Flights To Ngurah Rai Airport Increase, Here's The Schedule

Hundreds of Singaporean-Denpasar foreigners arrived at Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, Wednesday (16/02/2022). (Photo: Antara/Ayu Khania Pranisitha/2022)

JAKARTA - PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) said that the number of international flight routes that will operate at Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport continues to grow.

"We are very enthusiastic about starting the increase in international flights at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport in Bali. This also adds to the list of international airlines that have been operating in Bali," said AP I President Director Faik Fahmi in a statement monitored in Jakarta, Saturday.

Faik Fahmi explained, until February 24, 2022, five airlines have issued route permits and one airline is in the process of reactivating the route through the Director of Air Transportation of the Ministry of Transportation for March 2022.

A total of 5 international airline routes that have issued route permits, namely Jetstar Asia with the Singapore - Denpasar (PP) route, Scoot with the Singapore - Denpasar (PP) route, KLM with the Singapore - Denpasar (PP) route, Garuda Indonesia with the Sydney - Denpasar route. and AirAsia with the route Kuala Lumpur - Denpasar (PP).

One airline, namely Jetstar with the route Sydney - Denpasar (PP) & Melbourne - Denpasar (PP) is currently still in the process of activating the route.

Based on data from the inaugural flight plan on March 4, 2022, the Jetstar Asia airline with the Singapore - Denpasar (PP) route will use the Airbus A320 aircraft type with a seating capacity of 180 passengers, and is estimated to land at 09.55 WITA from Singapore.

Meanwhile, Garuda Indonesia airline for the Sydney - Denpasar route uses the Airbus A330 aircraft type with a seating capacity of 360 passengers, and is estimated to land at 14:45 WITA from Sydney.

Furthermore, Scoot for the Singapore - Denpasar (PP) route uses an Airbus A320 aircraft type with a seating capacity of 180 passengers and is estimated to land at 18:05 WITA from Singapore.

"Jetstar Asia and Scoot are each scheduled to operate 3 flights a week and Garuda Indonesia to operate 1 flight a week in March," he said as reported by Antara.

He continued, the KLM airline with the Singapore - Denpasar (PP) route is planned to operate as many as two flights for a week using the Boeing B777-300ER aircraft type with a seating capacity of 408 passengers.

Meanwhile, AirAsia with the Kuala Lumpur - Denpasar (PP) route is planned to operate three flights for a week using the Airbus A320 aircraft type with a seating capacity of 180 passengers.

As for the Jetstar airline, it is planned to operate three flights each a week for the Sydney - Denpasar (PP) and Melbourne - Denpasar (PP) routes using the Boeing B788 aircraft type with a seating capacity of 335 passengers.

Faik Fahmi emphasized AP I's commitment to continue to support efforts to restore international flight traffic in the midst of a pandemic through strict implementation of procedures and ensuring that all operations comply with applicable regulations.

"We also hope that passenger traffic and international flights in Bali can continue to increase so that it can encourage economic recovery and Bali tourism, which has been so affected by the pandemic for more than two years," he said.

For information, since the re-operation of international flights by Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport (1-24 February 2022) international flight passenger traffic at Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport has reached 1,784 passengers with aircraft traffic reaching 51 aircraft movements.

In the period before the 2019 COVID-19 pandemic, passenger traffic on international routes at Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport reached 13.8 million passengers with international aircraft traffic reaching 73,886 aircraft movements.