Garuda Indonesia Prediction: Number Of Passengers H-2 And D-1 Eid Al-Fitr 2023 Reaches 63 Thousand People

President Director of PT Garuda Indonesia, Irfan Setiaputra. (Between/Azmi Samsul Maarif)

PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) predicts that the number of passenger movements using its airline from Soekarno-Hatta Airport on D-2 and D-1 Eid Al-Fitr 1444 Hijri/2023 AD will reach 63 thousand people.

"So today and tomorrow we predict around 63,000 passengers," said President Director of PT Garuda Indonesia, Irfan Setiaputra in Tangerang, as quoted by Antara on Thursday, April 20.

"Today alone," said Irfan for Garuda and Citilink passengers, has reached 34 thousand people.

"The estimated increase in the number of passengers in the airline is projected to occur in D-2 Lebaran. Where, there are already 34 thousand Garuda Indonesia passengers along with Citilink who left Jakarta via Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang," he said.

He revealed, most likely on Friday (21/04) there will still be a surge in passengers. This is because many passengers are waiting for the decision to celebrate Eid al-Fitr.

"But later we will see if it starts to decline. The final results will be perfected starting April 24, 2023, to check the backflow of Lebaran," he said.

He also admitted that during the Eid homecoming transportation season, his party had submitted around 50 additional applications (extra flights) in line with the high interest of people traveling using air transportation, especially for holidays from 19 to 20 April 2023.

"During the Eid season, we submitted around 50 extra flights, so this is part of the extra flight application, usually the code is four digits," he said.

Meanwhile, based on data received by PT Angkasa Pura II, there were 1,216 applications for flights or extra flights at Soekarno-Hatta Airport by airlines for the peak of Lebaran's return flow.

However, until now the airline has just flown with the extra flight slot approaching 400 flights with the most requests dominated by Lion Air Group and Garuda Indonesia Group.