Garuda Indonesia and Etihad Airways agreed codeshare the flight route service of Jakarta-Perth

Indonesia Aviation. International air services on the Jakarta-Perth route will be served by Garuda Indonesia and Etihad Airways with manner to code share cooperation that has been agreed upon by both the airline. Cooperation code share flights between Etihad Airways and Garuda Indonesia is even easier for passengers of both airlines to access routes from the Middle East and western Europe to Australia and vice versa.

Garuda Indonesia. AeroTourismZone | Garuda Indonesia and Etihad Airways agreed codeshare the flight route service of Jakarta-Perth.

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PT Garuda Indonesia Tbk will serve flights from Jakarta to Perth which is a codeshare flight between the Indonesian state-owned airline with Etihad Airways. Flight schedules will be adjusted with flights to and from Abu Dhabi to facilitate access Garuda Indonesia and Etihad Airways passengers from the Middle East and western Europe to Australia and vice versa.

CEO of Etihad Airways, James Hogan, said that cooperation between his party and the Garuda continues to grow and deliver significant benefits to service users both airlines and airline through improved network connectivity and the flexibility of flight schedules between cities. "This cooperation is not only able to minimize the travel time to and from various destinations to passengers favorites to under three hours, but this cooperation is also possible for passengers enjoy flying with the fastest travel time between Jakarta, Manchester, Geneva, and Brussels," he said in a press release Sunday, February 17, 2013.

Hogan said the strategic partnership has provided access to Etihad towards six million potential tourists in Indonesia as well as strengthen the commercial cooperation between Indonesia and the Middle East countries, in the oil and gas sector and the mining industry in both regions. Garuda has opened a flight with Etihad network to six destinations from Europe and the Middle East, namely Frankfurt, Brussels, Milan, Dusseldorf, Munich, and Bahrain began in January 2013.

Main Director of Garuda Indonesia, Satar, said that with the addition of six new destinations it has become a marketing carrier to 13 destinations served by Etihad via Abu Dhabi. The seven other cities are Abu Dhabi, London, Paris, Manchester, Moscow, Athens, and Muscat. Etihad has become the marketing carrier to seven destinations served by Garuda Indonesia, namely Denpasar, Manado, Surabaya, Balikpapan, Makassar, Amsterdam, and Abu Dhabi. "Cooperation of codeshare signed since October 2012 has contributed significantly in facilitating the access of Garuda Indonesia passenger plane from Indonesia to 80 destinations in 50 countries in the world served by Etihad Airways," said Emirsyah.

The codeshare agreement is also part of an effort Garuda Indonesia to continue to improve its services to service users in line with the Quantum Leap program 2011-2015, particularly in the development of aviation network.

Lion Air Ready to Open Flight Routes of Kupang-Darwin and Adelaide-Denpasar

Lion Air says ready to serve the Indonesia-Australia flight on the route Kupang-Darwin and Adelaide-Denpasar. Ability to handle service Indonesia-Australia routes were presented by the Managing Director of Lion Air, Rusdi Kirana, on Thursday, February 7, 2013 last. In this case, Lion Air agreed a request from the Indonesian Ambassador to Australia, Riphat Najib, who requested that the national airline was willing to serve two routes linking Indonesia and Australia.

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Director of Lion Air, Rusdi Kirana, Lion Air revealed that ready to open two new routes to Australia, the Kupang-Darwin and Adelaide-Denpasar. "We are ready to open two new routes to Australia to fly the route Kupang-Darwin and Adelaide-Denpasar route," Rusdi said in a written statement on the signing of the Air Transport Services Agreement between Indonesia and Australia, at the Australian Parliament House, Canberra , Australia, Thursday, February 7, 2013.

The opening of the two routes is also due to the request from the Ambassador of Australia, Nadjib Riphat. "The Embassy of Indonesia has received requests direct flights from several cities in Australia to Denpasar, especially from various circles in Adelaide, I see this very good opportunity for Indonesia airlines" explained Nadjib Riphat.

Current carrying capacity that is used Indonesia as many as 12,000 seats and the Australians have used as many as 17,100 seats / week. Routes and airlines that fly Indonesia - Australia is PT. Garuda Indonesia on Denpasar-Perth route, Denpasar-Sydney, Melbourne-Denpasar, Jakarta - Sidney, and Denpasar-Melbourne. Air Asia Indonesia on Denpasar-Perth route. While in the Australia through Qantas flies Sydney-Jakarta route, Qantas code share with Jetstar's on Sydney-Denpasar route, Melbourne-Denpasar and Perth-Denpasar. Furthermore, the airline Virgin Australia on Adelaide-Denpasar route.

In this occasion, the Minister of Communications of the Republic of Indonesia, EE Mangindaan, and the Australian Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, signed the Air Transport Services Agreement between Indonesia and Australia and signed Annex II of the Memorandum of Understanding Between The Minisry Arrangement of Transportation of the Republic of Indonesia and the Department of Infrastrcture and Transport of Australia on Transport Security Cooperation.

Air Relationship Agreement between Indonesia and Australia is the legal basis in the implementation of the treaty relations between the two countries are set forth in the agreement governing the technical detail right transport capacity, frequency and aircraft type to be used airline from each country. Indonesia Air Transport Services Agreement was first signed on March 7, 1969. "There have been many developments in the air transport between Indonesia and Australia, the number of passengers continues to increase, therefore greatly Air Service Agreement needs to be revised by the two countries. I hope that the national airline of Indonesia capitalize on the growth of air transport Indonesia Australia as well as possible, because still a lot of requests from several cities in Australia, "explains EE Mangindaan after signing agreements air transport services.