GARUDA ADDITIONS:

GARUDA ADDITIONS:

National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is adding six new B-737
aircraft to its fleet to rejuvenate its operations. They arrived
at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta on Saturday.
They include five 104-seat B-737-300s and one 92-seat B-737-500.

The aircraft were officially handed over by State Minister of the
Empowerment of State Enterprises Tanri Abeng to Garuda Indonesia
president Abdul Gani. The batch is the second and last delivery
of the 11 B-737s ordered by Garuda from Boeing Commercial
Airplane Group. The companies signed a sale-purchase contract at
Indonesia Air Show 1996. Garuda plans to operate the new
airplanes on domestic and regional routes. With the arrival of
the six aircraft, Garuda now operates 40 aircraft: three B-747-
400s, six A-330-300s, five DC-10-30s, seven B-737-400s, nine B-
737-300s, five B-737-500, two F-28MK4000s and three F-28MK3000s.

Garuda serves 121 routes a day, consisting of 92 domestic and
29 international routes, with destinations in Asia, Europe,
Australia and Middle East. (alx/29)