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)