RI's first air cargo service launched

RI's first air cargo service launched

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Courier company RPX Group launched on Tuesday its airline
cargo service, called RPX Airlines, which is the first scheduled
cargo airline service in the country.

Using Boeing 737-200 aircraft with capacities of 15 tons, RPX
Airlines will fly between three major Indonesian
exporting/importing and manufacturing cities, Jakarta,
Balikpapan, Surabaya, and Singapore, five days a week between
Wednesday and Tuesday of the following week.

The service will depart from Jakarta for Singapore in the
morning and return to Jakarta before midday to continue on to
Balikpapan, Surabaya and Singapore and back again to Jakarta late
in the evening.

The inaugural flight will take place on Oct. 17, Harsha E.
Joesoef, the company's CEO, said.

He said the company planned to expand the service to take in
other cities, including Batam, Denpasar, Manado, Medan and Ujung
Pandang.

"Our plan for the future is to expand the fleet by up to eight
aircraft within the next five years," Harsha said.

According to Harsha, RPX Airlines is supported by two groups
of professional and trained experts: one group manages flight
operations and the other group manages the cargo aspects of the
business, which includes representatives and marketing offices in
Balikpapan, Jakarta, Singapore and Surabaya.

The RPX Group is a group of companies owned fully by
Indonesian investors and managed by Indonesian professionals and
technical advisors. The company employs more than 800 people and
operates a Boeing 737 aircraft and more than 120 vehicles.