AdamAir adds two more planes

AdamAir adds two more planes

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Budget carrier PT Adam SkyConnections Airlines (AdamAir) has
added two more Boeing aircraft to its existing fleet of six to
help accommodate rising demand.

The airline, which currently serves the Jakarta-Surabaya and
Jakarta-Denpasar routes, said in a statement that it needed
additional aircraft following its decision to increase its
frequency on those routes.

With the additional aircraft, it now flies five times per day
to Surabaya, one flight more than before, and four times a day to
Denpasar, compared to two flights previously.

"The additional planes are necessary to accommodate increasing
demand, as well as to meet our target of increasing our fleet to
15 aircraft by July," AdamAir chief executive officer Gunawan
Suherman said in the statement.

AdamAir started its domestic airline operations in December
2003 with Boeing 747-400 and Boeing 737-500 aircraft made between
1997 and 2000

This July, AdamAir plans to deploy seven more planes to serve
a number of new routes, including Jakarta-Bengkulu, Jakarta-
Mataram (West Nusa Tenggara), Jakarta-Batam (Riau), Jakarta-
Banjarmasin (South Kalimantan), Jakarta-Ambon (Maluku) and
Jakarta-Balikpapan (East Kalimantan).

Later this year, it plans also to establish a number of
international routes, such as Jakarta-Singapore, Jakarta-Kuala
Lumpur, Bandung-Kuala Lumpur, Surabaya-Kuala Lumpur and Denpasar-
Singapore. -- JP