Garuda Jakart-Japan Passenger Traffic Increases
Garuda Indonesia's passenger traffic on the Jakarta-Japan route increased 21 percent to 357.357 passengers during the whole period of year 2005 compared to the previous year. While in the first quarter of 2006, passengers carried has accumulated to 175.169 passengers.
"The trend is increasing," Wibowo added. To increase inbound Japanese tourists visting the country, Garuda among other appointed Fujita Sachiko, Miss Japan 2005 as Garuda's ambassador.
Her main mission, to introduce Indonesia to Japanese people, especially the younger generations. "Garuda is aiming Japan potential market, the students, young women and the newly weds," said Wibowo early September.
In a different occasion, Ari Sapari, Garuda's vice president operation said, the state-owned airline currently is evaluating 45 non-profitable domestic and international routes.The carrier flies to 65 destinations of which 20 new routes are categorized as profitable.
Among the non-profitable routes he mentioned Yogyakarta-Denpasar, the load factor only 68,4 percent, would be likely scrapped or reduced its frequencies. On the international routes, load factor on the Denpasar-Osaka sector which averagely reached only 49,7 percent, would be reevaluated.The most profitable domestic routes he detailed were the Jakarta-Balikpapan with a 73,5 percent load factor, and the Jakarta-Jeddah route with a 85,4 load factor, for the international routes. (ds)
(Source: Angkasa Magazine)
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