Garuda cuts baggage rates

JAKARTA (JP): Garuda Indonesia, the national flag carrier, has reduced its excess baggage tariffs by about 30 percent per kilogram for all its domestic routes.

A spokesman for the airline said in a statement here yesterday that it has also increased the maximum weight of free baggage for all of its domestic flights to 40 kilograms for first-class and business-class passengers and 30 kilograms for the economy-class passengers.(hdj)