Eva nets 120,000 passengers

Eva nets 120,000 passengers

JAKARTA (JP): Taiwan's Eva Air flew about 120,000 people to or
from Indonesia last year, the airline's local representative said
yesterday.

Peter Chen said that last year's result was 33 percent higher
than its 99,000-passenger figure for 1995.

"The number of passengers from Taiwan to Indonesia and from
Indonesia to Taiwan is expected to increase only by five percent
this year," he said, adding that the higher increase in previous
years mainly resulted from the opening of new routes.

Eva Air, owned by Taiwan's Evergreen Group, began flying in
1991.

The airline links Jakarta and Taipei (seven times a week),
Denpasar and Kaohsiung (twice a week) and Surabaya to Kaohsiung
and Taipei (four times a week). (04)