JAKARTA - President Director (Managing Director) of PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk Irfan Setiaputra opened his voice regarding the high price of airplane tickets for domestic flight routes that the public complained about.
He said that at first he was reluctant to lower the ticket price.
Many officials say that the ticket price is still expensive. We did survive at first. I said 'As long as my boss is direct, Mr. Minister (BUMN Erick Thohir), did not ask us to lower prices, I didn't want to hear anything else'. But this is also the voice of the community," he said in a hearing with Commission VI of the DPR, at the DPR Building, Jakarta, Wednesday, July 3.
However, Irfan said that in the end, Garuda Indonesia responded to the complaint by giving discounts on certain routes on certain days and hours of flight.
"So indeed for domestic logging, on certain routes, on certain days, at certain hours, we do lower the ticket price quite deeply," he said.
For example, continued Irfan, the flight route that received the discount was Bali. He said, discounts were given for Sunday and Thursday flights at a rate of Rp1,300,000 from the normal tariff of Rp1,900,000 for one trip.
"Bali always costs a class of IDR 1.9 million for the economy. On Sunday, when you go to Bali, you can get IDR 1.3 million now, one way, the return is Thursday IDR 1.3 million, but the other day it is still IDR 1.9 million," he explained.
Not only providing tickets with discounted prices, Irfan said that his party also cooperated with hotels to provide discounts for Garuda Indonesia passengers who came to Bali on Sundays and back on Thursday.
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Irfan explained that this campaign program was carried out because he reflected on the flow of the Lebaran homecoming, where when flying to the passenger occupancy area was full, but when he returned to Jakarta it tended to be empty.
Likewise, when the return flow of Lebaran, the occupancy of passengers to Jakarta is full, but when they go to the area it tends to be empty.
This condition is also experienced for the route to Bali.
He said the majority of people tend to travel to the Island of the Gods on Friday. So that on certain days the flight is empty.
"Everyone left on Friday. If you want to go cheap, you go home on Sunday, Thursday," he explained.
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