Garuda Successfully Transports 11.53 Million Passengers Throughout Semester I-2024

Garuda Indonesia (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk managed to record passenger growth until the first semester of 2024. During the first half of this year, Garuda Indonesia group managed to carry 11.53 million passengers.

President Director of Garuda Indonesia, Irfan Setiaputra, said that in the second quarter of 2024, Garuda Indonesia group recorded a growth in the number of passengers by 34.99 percent or reached 6.11 million passengers.

"The growth was 34.99 percent compared to the same period in the previous year, which was 4.52 million passengers. Thus, until the end of the first semester of 2024, Garuda Indonesia managed to transport 11.53 million passengers," he said in an official statement, Tuesday, August 13.

Irfan said the growth in the number of passengers was also reflected in the growth in Garuda Indonesia Group's flight frequency by 18.90 percent until the end of the first semester of 2024 when compared to the same period last year.

On the other hand, Garuda Indonesia on a consolidated basis in the second quarter of 2024 also managed to record a growth in the number of cargo transportations by 37.80 percent or to 53,326 tons of cargo on a year-on-year (yoy) basis.

Irfan explained that one of the improvements was supported by the growth of general cargo commodities, especially international cargo traffic of Garuda Indonesia, which grew by 54.01 percent.

"The achievement in the second quarter of 2024 represents strengthening Garuda Indonesia's performance in the midst of the momentum of accelerating the company's performance recovery phase, which is currently supported by various corporate action initiatives, both from passenger flight services and cargo transportation at Garuda Indonesia and Citilink," he explained.

Irfan said the number of passenger transportation was contributed by Garuda Indonesia (mainbrand) as many as 2.85 million passengers, which reflected an increase of up to 56.70 percent of the 1.82 million passengers in the second quarter of 2023.

Meanwhile, the number of Citilink transportation also grew 20.44 percent (yoy) to 3.26 million passengers. The acquisition of cargo transportation was contributed by Garuda Indonesia (mainbrand) as much as 32,536 tons and Citilink as much as 20,790 tons," explained Irfan.

Furthermore, Irfan said that currently Garuda Indonesia continues to optimize the capacity of production equipment in line with the growing demand for community mobilization using air transportation.

One of these efforts was strengthened through the level of utilization of the Garuda Indonesia fleet as a group, which in the second quarter of 2024 was recorded to show better consistency in operational efficiency, which increased by 7 minutes compared to the record in the same period in 2023, from 8 hours 2 minutes to 8 hours 19 minutes.

Meanwhile, continued Irfan, compared to the previous quarter period (qtq), the aircraft utilization rate also increased by 5 percent or 24 minutes from the previous period which was recorded at 7 hours 55 minutes.

In order to maintain consistency in operational performance achievements in Semester II-2024, Garuda Indonesia continues to implement a number of strategic initiatives, ranging from increasing the added value of flight services for service users, developing ground handling services, to optimizing routes and fleet maintenance.

Selain itu, sambung Irfan, upaya kolaborasi dan sinergi dalam lini bisnis ancillary revenue yang terus dioptimalkan juga menunjukkan perkembangan yang cukup signifikan dari tahun sebelumnya di era pasca pandemi.

"Through various improvement steps that continue to be aligned in all service and operational lines, we hope that efforts to accelerate Garuda Indonesia's performance can be realized in accordance with projections in the post-restructuring phase," concluded Irfan.