JAKARTA - PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) said that I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport has again added to the list of regular international flight routes with the re-operation of the Perth-Bali return flight route served by the Jetstar airline.

"After previously there were two cities in Australia that had been connected to Bali, as of today there is an increase of one with the operation of Jetstar flights connecting Perth with Bali," said PT Angkasa Pura I President Director Faik Fahmi in his statement, quoted from Antara, Saturday 9 April.

Faik Fahmi said the JQ110 flight which landed in Bali on Friday, April 8 at 11.44 WITA was the initial milestone for the operation of the route which had stopped since March 2020. The flight, which operates the Boeing A320 aircraft, carried 153 passengers,

The same plane then returned to the air at 13.10 WITA carrying 87 passengers to serve the Bali-Perth flight route via flight number JQ109.

"Based on the schedule, this route will operate every day," he said.

Faik further said that Ngurah Rai Airport now serves flights to and from three cities in Australia, namely Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.

Prior to the pandemic, Australia was one of the countries that consistently contributed the most foreign tourists to Bali.

"With the increasing number of routes connected to Bali, we are very optimistic about the potential increase in the number of foreign tourists vacationing in Bali, one of which is tourists from Australia," he said.

For information, with the operation of this route, now I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport serves eight regular international routes, namely Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Doha, Istanbul, and Perth.

Australia is the country with the most cities connected to Bali, with three cities.

There are 10 airlines serving regular international flights, namely Garuda Indonesia, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Jetstar Asia, Scoot, KLM, Jetstar, AirAsia, Qatar Airways, and Turkish Airlines.


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