Garuda Indonesia Airlines Added Airbus A330-200

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Garuda Indonesia Airlines Company added one more Airbus A330-200 and that mean now already have 4 unit planes. This plane has 22 seats capacity and will used for long distance flight destination (oversea). The new Garuda Airbus A330-200 flight non stop 13 hours and 26 minutes from Toulose Blagnac, France to Jakarta, Indonesia brings 13 passengers, there are 11 Garuda Indonesia employees and 2 journalists and 109 ton avtur. Now in the world around 600 units Airbus A330-200 was operated by some airlines company including Garuda Indonesia, Northwest Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Qatar Airways, Emirate. They are prime Airbus A330-200 users. Totally, Garuda ordered 10 Airbus A330-200 planes. Next 6 planes will arrive.

Garuda Asked Flight to New Zealand

Garuda Indonesia Airlines hoped direct flight to New Zealand as effort to increased tourist from this Kiwi country to Indonesia. This request submitted by participant in Indonesia business dialog held by Culture and Tourism Department of Republic of Indonesia and Republic of Indonesia Embassy in Auckland, New Zealand on September 14, 2009. The dialog presented in promotion agenda for recovery Indonesia tourism image after bomb blaster at Marriot and Ritz Charlton on last June. Dialog participants is around 100 persons consist from local officers, businessman, and travel agent. Answered about that question, Senior General Manager of Garuda Indonesia in Australia Purwoko Soeparyono said that to service the question, first of all must increased passengers from New Zealand. Garuda Indonesia hoped can fly directly to New Zealand, with option city destination is Wellington or Auckland. There is no problem if Garuda must fly from Jakarta or Bali. According to Purwoko, from business considered break event point reached if passengers load reached in one specific point Based from recently data, in the last six months New Zealand tourism who visited to Indonesia only 12,000 persons. The passengers number must divided into some flight likes to Singapore, Malaysia, even Brunei Darussalam. So in economical side this request is still difficult to realize. Even in the future will be have direct fly to New Zealand, maybe destination not to Bali but Jakarta.

Multiply Passengers, Air Asia Coupled Amadeus

Air Asia company network that consist of AirAsia, Indonesia AirAsia, Thai AirAsia, and AirAsiaX, established cooperation with travel ticket sale and distributed technology provider company Amadeus. The prime target is to multiply AirAsia passengers who want ordered ticket not via internet because they don’t have credit card. Still many passengers rely on ticket agent and travel to ordered ticket. Because they still need assistance to choose of route and the lowest ticket prince for plane, car rental, train, ferry, or cruises. “No special increased passengers target connected to this cooperation. But we believe, with this alternative will happened increased passenger,” says Indonesia AirAsia Chief Dharmadi on September 10, 2009 in Jakarta. Confirmed by Darmady, in in AirAsia Company network as many as 80 percent tickets already had ordered via internet. “We not changed our ordered ticket way, AirAsia still focus on ticket ordered via internet. This is only way to expand the way to buy ticket,” he says. Southeast Asia and India Subcontinent Amadeus Asia Ltd Paul Martin said together with Amadeus, AIrAsia will be become more reachable passengers from Europe. Because at this time more than 12,000 travel bureaus all over the world uses Amadeus Global Distribution System (GDS). GDS explained implementation Amadeus Ticketless Access, that make cheap flight information possible displayed together with premium flight and full service airlines. So, ticket agent can quickly response and give cheap flight information without need to open that flight website. Benefit from customers is cheap flight and low cost flight ticket choice information available. According to Paul Martin, Amadeus also have feature likes to choose seat or food ordered.

Mazda Targeted Indonesia Car Market

A Japan car producer Madza Motor Corporation targeted car selling in Indonesia as many as 10,000 units per year for next year or latest in next two years. Madza 2 car will sale in this year hopes can increase their quantity cars sell. That said by Yuji Nakamine, Managing Executive Officer and General Manager of Overseas Sales Divison Madza Motor Corporation on September 3, 2009, after exposed Madza 2 design also showed their Mazda fabric in Hiroshima, Japan. “Before Mazda only focused their sale in North America, Europe, and Japan. From now Mazda will explore Asia Pacific market,” said Nakamime. According to him, car producer like Toyota also already get surplus from South East Asia so Mazda must started to focused on regional market. In Indonesia, Mazda sell product is still small compared with other Japan car company. In 2008, Madza only sell about 2,200 units, or raise 68 percent compared in 2007. In fact, at least there 650,000 car units sell per year in Indonesia market. Based on Gabungan Industri Kendaraan Bermotor Indonesia (Gaikindo) or Indonesia Motor Vehicles Federation data, Daihatsu car sell on August reached 7,299 units or raised 15.3 percent compared on July 2009. Daihatsu takes second position after Toyota that success sell 18,403 car units.