Merpati adds domestic flights

Merpati adds domestic flights

JAKARTA (JP): State-owned air carrier Merpati Nusantara
Airways announced on Tuesday it would operate flight services
from Java and Kalimantan, Kalimantan and Sulawesi and within
Kalimantan itself.

Merpati general manager for corporate affairs Imam Turidy said
the routes would be opened to meet market demand and that
operations would begin on Nov. 1.

He said Merpati would fly six times a week from Yogyakarta to
Tarakan in East Kalimantan with a stopover in Surabaya in East
Java and Balikpapan in East Kalimantan and three times a week
from Surabaya to Pontianak in West Kalimantan via Semarang in
Central Java and Pangkalan Bun in West Kalimantan.

Merpati will fly three times a week from Balikpapan to Ujung
Pandang in South Sulawesi and from Balikpapan to Banjarmasin.
(cst)