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)