More int'l flights to Lombok

More int'l flights to Lombok

JAKARTA (JP): A Darwin-based Australian airline, National Jet
System (NJS), will start flying to Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, on
Oct. 5 by operating BAE 146 aircraft.

Lombok will be a stopover on the Singapore-Christmas Island-
Jakarta-Lombok-Darwin route served by NJS Australia, West Nusa
Tenggara administration spokesman, Tjok Suthendra Rai, said after
accompanying NJS executive George Marion in a meeting in Mataram
yesterday with Governor Warsito.

So far, SilkAir of Singapore is the only overseas airline
serving Lombok's Selaparang airport, Antara quoted Suthendra as
saying.

He said that in addition to NJS and SilkAir, Ansett of
Australia and Merpati Nusantara Airlines of Indonesia are
expected to soon serve Mataram-Perth and Mataram-Darwin routes,
respectively. (icn)