Bouraq Airlines gets 17 new routes

Bouraq Airlines gets 17 new routes

JAKARTA (JP): The government has allowed PT Bouraq Indonesia
Airlines, a private airline, to add 17 new domestic and
international routes in its services, a company executive said.

Benny Rungkat, vice president of Bouraq Indonesia Airlines,
said the new routes includes those linking Surabaya in East Java
with Taipei in Taiwan, Surabaya with Perth in West Australia,
Surabaya with Singapore, Ujungpandang in South Sulawesi with
Singapore, and Manado in North Sulawesi with Singapore.

Benny, concurrently also secretary-general of the Indonesia
National Air Carriers Association, said that his company will
cooperate with Taiwanese airlines, Eva Air and Trans Air, in
serving the Surabaya-Taipei route beginning in October 1995,
together with the operation of the Surabaya-Perth route.

He said Bouraq will start its first flight for the Surabaya-
Singapore route on June 22 with Boeing 737s, which will provide
five flights weekly.

Benny said that the air fare available in Indonesia is
currently U.S 10.5 cents per seat for every kilometer, far lower
than the 21 cents set by the International Civil Aviation
Association.

State-owned Garuda Indonesia also gets 12 new routes this
year, including those between Jakarta and Palembang in South
Sumatra, Jakarta and Pekanbaru in Riau, Jakarta and Padang in
West Sumatra and Jakarta and Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan,
Garuda's director, Koessoeyono, said recently.(32)