Silk Air to use larger jet

Silk Air to use larger jet

JAKARTA (JP): Singapore's Silk Air will replace the Fokker 70
aircraft now serving its Solo, Central Jakarta - Singapore route
with bigger aircraft later this year, an executive of the airline
said Thursday.

Zuchri B. Johari, the manager of the airline's Solo branch,
said the change to A-320, A-319 or Boeing 737-600 aircraft would
exploit the expansion of the city's Adisumarno International
Airport.

Silk Air, a subsidiary of Singapore Airlines, serves the Solo
route three times a week, with a load factor reaching 60 percent
of the seating capacity.

Zuchri urged local travel and tourism companies to benefit
from the expansion of international airports by offering more
tour packages to foreign tourists.

"Tour packages must not concentrate on one area only, but
other tourist sites in Central Java," he added. (02)