Merpati serves new domestic routes
Merpati serves new domestic routes
JAKARTA (JP): Merpati Nusantara Airlines, one of the country's
six scheduled air carriers, as of tomorrow will start serving
three new domestic routes from the Halim Perdanakusuma airport in
East Jakarta by operating CN-235 aircraft.
Merpati's spokesman, Agus Sudjono, told The Jakarta Post
yesterday that the new routes include Jakarta-Yogyakarta,
Jakarta-Semarang (Central Java) and Jakarta-Pangkalpinang on
Bangka island in South Sumatra.
Agus said that Merpati will serve the Jakarta-Yogyakarta route
seven times per week, in which the 36-seat CN-235 will depart
from Halim Perdanakusuma at 11:10 a.m. and will then depart from
the Adi Sucipto airport in Yogyakarta at 1:20 p.m.
He said that the airline will serve the Jakarta-Semarang route
twice daily, except Wednesdays and Saturday when it will be
served only once. The aircraft will depart from Halim
Perdanakusuma at 7:15 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. and will depart from the
Ahmad Yani airport in Semarang at 9:10 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.
Meanwhile, Merpati will serve the Jakarta-Pangkalpinang route
five times weekly--every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and
Sunday--with the flight departing at 8:00 a.m. from Halim
Perdanakusuma and at 10:10 a.m from Pangkalpinang.
Agus said the additional flights will give passengers more
alternatives for going to Yogyakarta, Semarang and Pangkalpinang
with Merpati, a subsidiary of the national air carrier Garuda
Indonesia.
Since July last year, Merpati has been serving Yogyakarta
twice daily by Fokker F-100 jets from the Soekarno-Hatta airport,
west of Jakarta. The airline also links Jakarta and Semarang and
Pangkalpinang from Soekarno-Hatta by F-28s.
Merpati operates 87 passenger aircraft, comprising of three
Boeing 737-200s, six F-100s, 25 F-28s, 13 Fokker-27s, 14 CN-235s,
five Advanced Turbo Propellers, 11 Cassa-212s and 10 Twin Otters.
CN-235 aircraft, assembled by the Bandung-based aircraft
manufacturer IPTN in cooperation with Cassa of Spain, are
currently operated for short and medium routes including Jakarta-
Tanjungkarang (Lampung), Jakarta-Bandung (West Java), Denpasar
(Bali)-Ampenan (West Nusa Tenggara), Jakarta-Pangkalanbun
(Central Kalimantan) and Jakarta-Cilacap (Central Java).(icn)