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  • Number of Indonesian air passengers spike before Idul Fitri

    Number of Indonesian air passengers spike before Idul Fitri

    Indonesian flyers embarking on the homeward-bound Idul Fitri exodus have surged in the six days before the holiday, Transportation Ministry data has shown.

    “According to the data collected until June 20 at midnight, domestic flights have seen a 10 percent surge in passengers,” an official with the Transportation Ministry in charge of the Idul Fitri holiday daily integrated transportation post, Adi Karsyaf Rahayu, said in a statement.

    On the accumulated data from 10 days before until six days before the festivity collected from 35 airports, the number of domestic flyers has surged to 1.3 million from 1.18 million passengers in the same period last year.

    A higher jump was observed in international flights in seven airports in Indonesia six days  before Idul Fitri, with a 12.69 percent hike to 222,976 passengers from the 197,871 in the same period last year.

    The Transportation Ministry, which spearheads the coordination for this year’s annual exodus, predicted that the country would see a 4.8 percent surge in the number of people traveling by public transportation to 19.04 million.

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  • Garuda Indonesia Raking It In During Idul Fitri Holiday

    Garuda Indonesia Raking It In During Idul Fitri Holiday

    Flag carrier Garuda Indonesia filled more seats on its domestic flights during the Lebaran exodus this year, as more people chose air travel to return to their hometown for Idul Fitri.

    The state-controlled airline’s average load factor — which indicates how much an airline makes use of its seat capacity — went up to 74 percent from June 24 to July 5, a day before Idul Fitri, on all of its domestic routes, Benny S. Butarbutar, Garuda Indonesia’s vice president of corporate communication, said on Saturday (09/07).

    Benny did not give a figure for last year’s Idul Fitri holiday.

    Still, the latest figure could mark a turnaround for Garuda. The full-service airline had seen its load factor dip to 69 percent in the first three months of this year, compared to 74 percent in the same period last year, as weak economic growth forced cost-conscious travelers to opt out of the airline’s services.

    Garuda added 32,000 more seats on 132 extra flights, 112 of which are on international routes, between June 24 to July 17 to cater for Indonesians during the annual Lebaran exodus, Benny said.

    “This represents a 35 percent increase in our extra capacity from the same period last year,” Benny said.

    The National Police estimated 17.6 million people made the travel back to their hometown during the Lebaran exodus this year. Ouf of that figure, 4.6 million chose air travel, up 7.6 percent from a year ago as people’s purchasing power has increased and local airlines offer new fleets and routes.

    Air travelers met with relatively few problems during this year’s Lebaran exodus compared to their peers taking land routes, who were met by hellish traffic jams on toll roads across Java.