Antara News, Saturday, May 8, 2010 12:45 WIB
Ambon, Maluku (ANTARA News) - PT Garuda Indonesia Airlines is ready to reopen its Jakarta-Ambon route with a stopover in Makassar, South Sulawesi, in the first week of next June.
The general manager of Garuda Indonesia`s Makassar branch office, Hendra Sumarno, said here on Saturday, the company was preparing the personnel needed to handle the reopened route.
In addition, an office of the national flag carrier would be opened next to the Mutiara Hotel on Jalan Raya Pattimura in Ambon to give the best possible service to Garuda customers in Maluku.
Hendra Sumarno said Garuda flights to Ambon were scheduled to depart from Jakarta`s Soekarno-Hatta airport at 10 a.m. Western Indonesia Time (WIB) with a stopover at Makassar`s Hassanudin airport before flying to Pattimura airport in Ambon, and return to Jakarta at 5 pm East Indonesia Time (WIT).
"We are to schedule Ambon-Jakarta flights in such a way that they will arrive in Jakarta a few hours before Garuda flights to Amsterdam take off because many foreign passengers from Ambon usually want to have connecting flights to the Netherlands," Sumarno said.
He said the Jakarta-Makassar-Ambon route would be served with aircraft having a capacity of 14 to 16 business-class seats and 120 economy-class seats.
Other airline companies flying to Ambon at present are Lion Air, Batavia Air, and Sriwijaya Air from Ambon-Makassar-Jakarta, Ambon-Surabaya-Jakarta, and Ambon-Jakarta.
Garuda`s Jakarta-Ambon flight service would be reopened in conjunction with the addition of 24 new aicraft to its fleet in 2010, namely 23 new generation Boeing 737-800s and one Airbus A330-200.
Meanwhile, Deputy Transportation Minister Bambang Susantono said here recently that Garuda would fly to Ambon again starting June 1, 2010.
"Garuda`s management has obtained a recommendation from the transportation ministry and thus it will fly to Ambon again on the first day of June this year," he said.
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