Qantas sees more passengers

Qantas sees more passengers

JAKARTA (JP): Qantas Airways of Australia transported some
214,000 passengers from Jakarta to Australia in the first nine-
months of this year.

An executive of the air carrier's Jakarta office, Fonny
Tedjakusmana, said here yesterday that most of the passengers
went to Sydney, followed by Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane.

She said that some 194,000 passengers flew to Sydney from
Jakarta in the January to September period.

Qantas directly links Jakarta and the four Australian cities
with a total of 14 flights per week, using Boeing B747 and B767
jets. The company, which also serves the Denpasar-Darwin route
five times per week, competes with Garuda Indonesia and Ansett
International in the same market.

Tedjakusmana said that the number of passengers flying Qantas
from Indonesia in the fiscal year ending May 1997 increased 10
percent compared with the previous corresponding period.

She said that Qantas still waited for approval from the
Indonesian government for a new service linking Cairns and Timika
in Irian Jaya. (icn)