GARUDA Indonesia is back to its regular operating schedule today following the restoration of its online systems, which had blacked out in a fire that broke out at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport yesterday.
Arif Wibowo, Garuda president and CEO said: “The system has been back online since last night. We are adding extra flights and operating bigger aircraft, focusing on flying (some 3,900) stranded passengers. Today, all flights operate as per normal.”
He added that Garuda is allowing affected passengers to reschedule their flights or obtain full refunds.
A fire started in the lounge at Terminal 2E of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport at 06.00 yesterday, causing a blackout across the terminal and disrupting flights with some 33 flights were cancelled, including departures to Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
Besides Garuda, Malaysia Airlines, China Southern Airlines and Xiamen Airlines flights were also among the flights suffering delays.
