Garuda Indonesia commits new plane to WA-Bali route
July 29th, 2008
JAKARTA: Garuda Indonesia says it will allocate the newly-delivered Boeing 737-800 Next Generation series aircraft on the Perth Bali route from August 18.Â
“This move is in direct response to the resurgence in tourism to Bali from Western Australia,” the company said in a statement.
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the state recorded a 75% growth in holiday makers travelling to Indonesia in the first quarter of 2008.
From August 18, Garuda will add another daily service to the two flights that are currently operating daily (except Wednesday). And, from September 3, an additional Wednesday service will bring the total operation from Perth to Bali to triple daily, providing a growth in capacity of 61.5%.
This is in addition to four direct flights per week to Jakarta from Perth.
The new daily flight, GA725, will depart Perth at 2.25pm arriving in Bali at 6.10pm. This will give West Australians the option of a mid afternoon flight to add to the daily morning flight which departs at 7.15am (GA727), and the six times weekly evening flight GA729 departing at 5.15pm.
Garuda Indonesia’s GM for WA, Iskandar Basro, said Western Australians have had an ongoing love affair with Bali for years, prompted by value packages and a strengthening Australian dollar.
“The word is out that there is no other place in the world where you can holiday in luxury for such great prices.â€
“The addition of a further 1248 seats by September 3 should go a long way to ensuring that Western Australians can continue this romance. “
The capacity increase from the West Coast follows Garuda’s announcement last month of an additional 1013 seats per week being added to East Coast Australian routes to Bali by September 3.
Source: http://www.aviationrecord.com/
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