Qatar Airways opens Jakarta office

Qatar Airways opens Jakarta office

JAKARTA: Qatar Airways opened a representative office in Jakarta on Thursday to boost the service it offers its customers in this country.

"This creates a golden bridge linking people in Jakarta and Doha and makes the relationship between two countries stronger," Minister of Culture and Tourism I Gede Ardika said during the ceremony to inaugurate the office.

Qatar Airways has been operating three return flights from Doha to Jakarta every week with a one-hour stopover in Kuala Lumpur since December 2001.

Company chief executive officer Akbar Al Baker said the airline's passengers had increased 31 percent in February of this year compared to the same period last year.

"We are targeting a 40 percent increase in passenger numbers as we increase our fleet from the current thirteen aircraft to twenty-five by 2004," he said. -- JP