Adding The Number Of Fleet, Garuda Indonesia Brought 2 Boeing 737-800 NG Aircraft

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JAKARTA - Garuda Indonesia continues to strive to optimize the trend of increasing passenger traffic by increasing the number of fleets owned. Garuda brought in two Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft this week.

Garuda Indonesia President Director Irfan Setiaputra said he had officially received an additional Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The plane with registration number PK-GUA arrived at Terminal 3 of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 19.50 WIB last night, Friday, August 4.

"The arrival of one Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft is a form of Garuda Indonesia's continued commitment after the restructuring to continue to move into a much healthier and more adaptive business entity, along with community air travel activities that are gradually recovering to a pre-pandemic situation," he said in Jakarta, Sunday, August 6.

Furthermore, Irfan said that it is still within the same month that Garuda Indonesia is also planned to receive another Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft as the second aircraft to arrive in Jakarta to enter the painting livery process at GMF AeroAsia before officially operating.

"With the presence of the two aircraft, currently the strength of the Boeing 737-800 NG Garuda Indonesia fleet is 39 fleets. Meanwhile, the next 2 aircraft are projected to arrive around the end of the third quarter of 2023," he said.

Irfan said, the arrival of the aircraft is part of the plan to add the Garuda Indonesia fleet, which is a total of 5 narrow bodies in 2023.

"The plan for these five aircraft will later support the optimization of Garuda's flight frequency growth, both domestic and international routes throughout 2023, especially routes with positive achievements," he explained.

Including, continued Irfan, to support various national and international events in various Indonesian destinations that require the support of safe and comfortable air transportation accessibility.

Open New Route

Entering the third quarter of this year, Garuda Indonesia also continues to strengthen its flight network in the near future, including plans to open a new route for Denpasar-Sorong.

Then, continued Irfan, increasing flight frequency for favorite routes, namely from and to Denpasar, Surabaya, Singapore, Malang, to Tanjung Pinang.

Irfan said this was also aligned with optimizing the Umrah market share through direct flight routes to the holy land from a number of big cities in Indonesia.

"We hope that with the various initiatives that we take, both in terms of Garuda Indonesia's core business, to steps to diversify business lines as an effort to support the Company's performance income, can encourage Garuda's steps to recover faster to the situation before the pandemic to realize Garuda Indonesia's current focus, namely becoming an adaptive and profitable business," concluded Irfan.