Garuda Indonesia Group Projects To Transport 51 Thousand Passengers At The Peak Of Lebaran Backflow

Garuda Indonesia aircraft. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

JAKARTA - Garuda Indonesia Group, through its Garuda Indonesia and Citilink flight service lines, projects that it will carry at least 51,000 passengers at the peak of Lebaran return this year.

The peak of the 2022 Eid backflow is expected to fall on Sunday.

Garuda Indonesia Group also projects that the total number of passengers flying in the return period from May 4 to 9 is expected to reach 267,000 passengers.

President Director of Garuda Indonesia Irfan Setiaputra said the projection would certainly continue to move dynamically in line with the extension of the school holiday period until May 12 which had been announced by the government.

Furthermore, Irfan said that the trend of passenger movement so far is still in line with the projected increase in passengers during the Lebaran return period. However, we are still preparing anticipatory steps if there is an increase in passenger movement during the extended school holiday period this Lebaran holiday period.

"So far, we estimate that the peak of the Lebaran backflow will take place on May 8, 2022, where on that day, the Garuda Indonesia Group will serve at least 341 flights carrying 51,323 passengers at the peak of the return," he said in an official statement, quoted by Antara. Saturday, May 7th.

For this reason, continued Irfan, Garuda Indonesia continues to optimize its flight service capacity, one of which is done by increasing the frequency and operating bigger aircraft on a number of routes with high demand, such as Kualanamu-Jakarta, Padang-Jakarta, Pekanbaru-Jakarta to Surabaya- Jakarta.

"In addition, Garuda Indonesia also continues to optimize passenger entry for outbound routes from Jakarta to Denpasar and vice versa," said Irfan.

Irfan explained that with an average passenger load rate of more than 85 percent on each flight, Garuda Indonesia Group also urges the public to be more careful in planning trips during this return period.

"We estimate that the trend of passenger movement on the return flight will continue until May 16, 2022. For this reason, we will continue to strengthen coordination with aviation service stakeholders to ensure that flight operational readiness continues to run optimally, including the consistency of implementing health protocols," he said. .