Garuda posts outstanding load factors as Bali regains popularity
Garuda Indonesia’s expanding flight schedules from Sydney to Bali have been a resounding success, with the additional Sydney flight achieving average load factors of 90 per cent, and Perth and Melbourne also reporting surging demand.
The new GA717 Wednesday flight from Sydney, launched on June 20, added another 3000 seats to the Sydney-Bali route up to the end of August. However, even with this additional capacity, demand has been high for both Economy and Executive Class.
“Perth has been an outstanding performer too.” says the airline’s Regional General Manager, Southwest Pacific, Mr. Suranto Yitnopawiro.
“Our Perth services – expanded this year to include direct Jakarta flights – are encountering extremely high demand, and agents and consumers alike have learned that early booking is essential.” “This is quite different to the past trend towards last-minute booking.”
Victorian demand is also high with forward bookings from Melbourne to Bali already showing load factors in the high eighty percentile range.
The airline’s high seat load factors reflect the expanding Australian market to Bali where visitor numbers have grown more than 50 per cent in the first half of this year from 52,574 to 85,860.
“In addition to the growing Australian market, our Victorian Sales Manager has just returned from a famil with 16 agents who were amazed at the number of Europeans and Asians holidaying in Bali.” “It certainly changed their perspective – and showed how different reality is from the picture often presented in the general media.”
“Bali is now Australia’s fourth most popular holiday destination, behind only New Zealand, Thailand and the USA and its share of the total Australian holiday market has grown by 44.5 per cent over the most recent half year.”
“Garuda Indonesia has the greatest number of non-stop flights to Bali, serving Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Darwin.” “All flights are full service and feature both Economy and Executive (business) classes.”
Report by The Mole
John Alwyn-Jones
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