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        "msgid": "mandala-airlines-to-lease-two-more-jets-1447893297",
        "date": "1996-03-23 00:00:00",
        "title": "Mandala Airlines to lease two more jets",
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        "summary": "Mandala Airlines to lease two more jets JAKARTA (JP): Mandala Airlines later this year will aquire two more Boeing B-737-200 aircraft, bringing the number of such planes in its fleet to nine. Finance Director Veronika H. Subarkah told reporters here yesterday that the airline will lease the two aircraft for four years from the Anglo-American firm GCAS for a leasing fee of between US$100,000 and $150,000 per aircraft per month.",
        "content": "<p>Mandala Airlines to lease two more jets<\/p>\n<p>JAKARTA (JP): Mandala Airlines later this year will aquire two<br>\nmore Boeing B-737-200 aircraft, bringing the number of such<br>\nplanes in its fleet to nine.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Director Veronika H. Subarkah told reporters here<br>\nyesterday that the airline will lease the two aircraft for four<br>\nyears from the Anglo-American firm GCAS for a leasing fee of<br>\nbetween US$100,000 and $150,000 per aircraft per month.<\/p>\n<p>\"One of the two airplanes will be delivered during the first<br>\nsemester of this year and the other one in the second semester,\"<br>\nshe said, adding that the jets were manufactured after 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Mandala currently operates seven B-737-200s on routes from<br>\nJakarta to 10 cities, including Medan, Padang,Palembang,<br>\nYogyakarta, Denpasar and Surabaya.<\/p>\n<p>Veronika said that her company had ordered 20 N-250 aircraft<br>\nfrom state-owned aircraft producer PT Industri Pesawat Terbang<br>\nNusantara (IPTN).<\/p>\n<p>Mandala is currently cooperating with PT Trigana Air Service,<br>\na private charter airline, to run the latter's two Fokker F-28s<br>\non routes from Jakarta to Pontianak in West Kalimantan and Jambi<br>\nin southern Sumatra.<\/p>\n<p>Veronika said yesterday that her company planned to operate<br>\ntwo more F-28s owned by Trigana later this year, which would be<br>\nused to link Jakarta and Palangkaraya in Central Kalimantan and<br>\nJakarta and a city in Sumatra.<\/p>\n<p>\"We're also cooperating with Transmile, a private airline in<br>\nMalaysia,\" she said. \"From early this year, Mandala has been<br>\nrunning B-737-200 aircraft belonging to Transmile on routes from<br>\nMedan, Jakarta and Surabaya to Kuala Lumpur.\"<\/p>\n<p>She said that Mandala's load factor last year reached 65<br>\npercent.<\/p>\n<p>Veronika said that to improve service to customers, Mandala<br>\nhad computerized its reservation system.<\/p>\n<p>The software for Mandala's reservation system was supplied by<br>\nGaruda Indonesia, while the hardware was supplied by Netframe of<br>\nthe United States through PT Ekamatra Kirana.<\/p>\n<p>Mandala's president, Rear Marshall Subagiyo, said that the<br>\ncomputerized system would soon be applied for passenger check-in<br>\nand baggage handling. (icn)<\/p>",
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