Lufthansa's services to Indonesia

Lufthansa's services to Indonesia

Germany's national air carrier, Lufthansa, landed in Jakarta
for the first time on July 2, 1967. The flight was a Boeing 707
which took 19 hours to fly from Germany, via Dhahran, Karachi,
Bombay and Bangkok, before touching down at Jakarta's old
Kemayoran airport.

The wide-body jets (DC10s) first arrived in the mid-1970s,
shortly before a second weekly flight to Jakarta was introduced
in 1975.

Demand for air transportation -- both passenger and cargo --
has grown dramatically since the early 1980s, in response to the
rapid economic reforms introduced by the Indonesian government at
that time.

Increases in air services have corresponded with the
development of tourism, which has become the fourth-largest
earner of foreign exchange in the country.

On April 1, 1990, this culminated in the introduction of
Lufthansa services linking Denpasar directly with Germany,
catering to the ever-increasing number of foreign tourists bound
for the idyllic island of Bali.

From Nov. 1, 1996, Lufthansa will connect Indonesia with
Frankfurt nine times a week with one-stop Boeing 747-400
services. This includes daily flights from Jakarta via Singapore
and two flights each week from Denpasar via Bangkok.

To serve the consistent growth in customer demand in this
13,677-island republic, Lufthansa maintains its own offices in
Jakarta, Denpasar and Surabaya. The airline has many other
interests and joint ventures in the country, from an aircraft
maintenance project set up jointly with Garuda in 1991 to other
business enterprises involving technology and know-how transfer
to the Indonesian civil aviation industry.