Will Be The Most Congested When Christmas And New Year 2023, Cengkareng-Denpasar Flight Routes Have Selled Tens Of Tickets

Bandra I Gustri Ngurah Rai. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - President Director of PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) Faik Fahmi predicts that the Cengkareng-Denpasar route will be the most dense route for domestic travel during the 2022 Christmas and New Year 2023 (Nataru) holidays. Furthermore, Faik said that this prediction refers to the content and ticket rates sold until December 10, 2022. Faik said, this passenger content data was obtained after coordinating with the airline that was operating. "Based on tickets sold, from the December 10th (2022) position data for the most domestically is the Cengkareng-Denpasar route," he said in a meeting with Commission VI of the Indonesian House of Representatives, Wednesday, December 14. As of December 10, said Faik, tickets on the Cengkareng-Denpasar route had already been sold as many as 12,000 tickets. Then, followed by the Denpasar-Surabaya route with tickets selling as many as 33,000 tickets. Furthermore, Cengkareng-Surabaya with 17,000 tickets sold, Cengkareng-Yogyakarta sold 15,000 tickets, and Batam-Kualanamu as many as 14,000 tickets. Faik said, for the densest international flight routes were Denpasar-Singapura. Then, Denpasar-Kuala Lumpur, Denpasar-Melbourne, and Denpasar-Sydney.

When viewed from the percentage of capacities that have been sold, continued Faik, the Pontianak-Yogyakarta route occupies the most positions with 70 percent filled with capacity. Then, Batam-Silangit is 55 percent, and Bandung-Denpasar is 55 percent. "This is the position of December 10 but based on the latest developments, usually if domestic this increase is quite significant two weeks before the H day," he said. Meanwhile, said Faik, the percentage of capacity that has been sold for international routes is most of Istanbul's Turkey's destination. "And then international is also the most routes now in Turkey Istanbul because they are visa-free and then to Australi and Singapore," he said.