Airlines Add Thousands of Seats during Long Weekend
Thursday, 09 April, 2009 | 16:06 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Jakarta: Eight airlines added 56,468 seats to anticipate increasing passengers during the holidays on voting day and Easter. The additional seats are for 26 domestic flight routes.

“The eight airlines include Garuda Indonesia, Wings Air, Lion Air, Sriwijaya, Batavia Air, Riau Airlines, Kalstar, and Trigana,” Director for air transportation at the Transportation Department, Tri S Sunoko told Tempo, Wednesday (8/4).

The Transportation Department said the routes with more passengers than usual are Surabaya-Balikpapan (6,988 seats), Jakarta-Palembang (5840 seats), Jakarta-Denpasar (4,844 seats), Banjarmasin-Surabaya (4,640 seats), Jakarta-Balikpapan (4,620 seats), Surabaya-Makassar (3,710 seats), and Surabaya-Denpasar (3,300 seats).

The department’s head of Domestic Transportation, Hemi Pamurahardjo, said airlines should maintain good service as problems related to service matters are usually found during long holidays.

WAHYUDIN FAHMI