Provide 2.6 Million Seats, Tickets For The New Nataru Holiday Train Sold 28 Percent

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JAKARTA - PT Kereta Api (Persero) or KAI noted that long-distance train tickets for the 2023 Christmas and 2024 New Year (Nataru) periods had sold 762,790 or 28 percent of the total seats provided, namely 2.6 million.

The ticket was sold as of Wednesday, December 6. KAI itself stipulates that the Christmas and New Year's Transport (Nataru) will take place from December 21, 2023 to January 7, 2024.

"Regarding the data on Wednesday, December 6, 2023, at 09:00 WIB, the total ticket sold was 762,790 tickets or 28.66 percent of the available tickets," said KAI VP Public Relations Joni Martinus, Wednesday, December 6.

The details, continued Joni, are the executive class of 166,561 tickets sold from the available capacity of 608,929 seats. Then, business class 20,110 tickets were sold out of a capacity of 95,598 seats. Then, economic class 576,119 tickets from the capacity of 1,241,819 seats.

Joni said the number of tickets sold would continue to increase considering ticket sales are still ongoing.

Furthermore, Joni said, the public can already buy regular long-distance train tickets that are available in the Access by KAI application, the kai.id website, minimarkets, and all train ticket purchase channels starting from H-45.

Ticket purchases at the station counters are only available for train departures starting 3 hours or going show.

"People can immediately book tickets because the Nataru River train tickets are still quite widely available," he said.

Joni also said that the trains that have become favorites for Nataru Transportation so far include the Airlangga Train (KA 235) Surabaya Pasarturi-Pasar Senen relation; Airlangga train (KA 236) Pasar Senen-Surabaya Pasartur relation; Bengawan train (KA 246) Pasar Senen-Purwosari relation and Bengawan train (KA 245) Purwosari-Pasar Senen relation.

Then, the Kahuripan train (KA 237) is related to Blitar-Kiaracondong. Then, the Kahuripan train (KA 238) is the Kiaracondong-Blitar and KA relationship between Sri Tanjung (KA 242) and Lempuyangan-Ketapang," he said.

Then, KA Sri Tanjung (KA 241) Ketapang-Lempuyangan relation; Probowangi train (KA 266) Ketapang-Surabaya Gubeng and KA Serayu (KA 251) connection Purwokerto-Pasar Senen.