Domestic Flight Loads Increase

(2/18/2002)

Statistics provided by the Indonesian Center for Statistics covering the first 11 months of 2001, show domestic passengers carried on Indonesian Air Carriers increased by 21.05% to 7,82 million passengers when compared to the same period one year before.

Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport garnered the lion's share of domestic passengers, lifting 29.03% of all domestic passengers followed by Surabaya with 11.97%.

International passenger uplifts, however, painted a less rosy picture with total passengers down 5.82% over the previous year at 3.98 million. 47.17% of international passengers flew via Jakarta's airport with Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport coming in second carrying 1.3 million passengers or 32.59% of all foreign passengers.