Today, There Are 38 Thousand Train Passengers Departing From Gambir Station And Pasar Senen

JAKARTA - Head of Public Relations of PT KAI Operational Area 1 Jakarta Eva Chairunisa said the peak flow of long-distance train passengers occurred on Friday or D-2 Christmas.

The highest departure volume was recorded today during the Nataru 2022-2023 period. Today there are a total of around 38 thousand service users departing from the Daop 1 Jakarta area," he told the media at Pasar Senen Station, Jakarta, December 23.

22 thousand tickets were sold for departures from Pasar Senen Station and another 16 thousand service users departed from Gambir Station. As for train operations, there are 70 trains with 38 trains departing from Gambir Station and 32 trains from Pasar Senen Station.

"That includes an additional train of about 20 trains," he said in a written statement received by the editor.

Overall, the total Christmas and New Year tickets provided from KAI Daop 1 Jakarta for 20 days during the Christmas and New Year period on December 22, 2022-8 January 2023 were 736,406 tickets.

As of Friday, booking for Christmas tickets and the new year departures from Gambir Station and Pasar Senen have been sold for around 287 thousand for departure December 22, 2022-8 January 2023.

"But the data is still running because the ticket sales are still ongoing online," said Eva.

Meanwhile, if you look at the date that is most in demand, it will start from 22-31 December 2022. During those 10 days, the availability of tickets of 409,212 around 240,500 has been sold.

A number of favorite destination cities chosen by passengers for long-distance travel are Yogyakarta, Solo, Semarang, Purwokerto, Tegal, Kutoarjo, Surabaya, Malang, and Madiun while for close range are Cirebon and Bandung.

Eva reminded all service users to pay attention to the current current current regulations for the latest vaccine, especially changes to the rules at the age of 6-12 years, of which children at that age who have not been vaccinated can still take the train on condition that they have a certificate of not getting vaccinated from the Puskesmas/health service facilities for certain reasons or must be accompanied by adults who have received a booster vaccine.