Awair reopens flight to Bali

Awair reopens flight to Bali

JAKARTA (JP): Privately owned local airline PT Awair
Internasional will recommence flights to Denpasar, Bali, from
Jakarta on June 15, after suspending the service in February due
to a decrease in the number of passengers, an executive said.

Awair spokesman Arifin Hutabarat said on Friday that the
service to Denpasar would be serviced by two 175-seater Airbus
310-300, with 16 business-class seats and 159 economy seats.

In February this year, the company stopped its services to
Denpasar and Singapore from Jakarta, and to Makassar in South
Sulawesi from Surabaya, East Java.

"At the time the market was too small for our plane to service
the routes," Arifin said, adding that the other flights to
Singapore and Makassar would be reopened once new aircraft, the
Boeing 737-300 and Boeing 737-400, arrived.

The company also said that it would open new routes, between
Jakarta-Palembang and Palembang-Batam, between July and August
this year, using the 150 seat Boeing 737-400. (tnt)