GARUDA Indonesia is expecting revenue of up to 400 billion rupiah (US$47 million) over the two-week Hari Raya holiday season.
The Indonesian flag carrier has bumped up capacity to meet the anticipated demand hike (TTG Asia e-Daily, August 12), adding 24,930 seats through 99 extra flights and operating bigger aircraft.
Garuda president and CEO, Emirsyah Satar, said: “The number of passengers during the period of one week before and one week after Hari Raya (August 30-31) will increase by 25 per cent. Therefore, we have increased the frequency and will use bigger aircraft (on some routes).”
Together with regular services, Garuda is allotting a total of 891,697 seats for this year’s Hari Raya, a 24 per cent increase over last year’s 715,255.
Among the biggest number of extra services are Jakarta-Denpasar (36 extra flights) and Jakarta-Singapore (30 extra flights).
