Garuda's Income Rp27.1 Trillion In 2011

Jakarta, Jan 13 (ANTARA) - State airline company PT Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) has announced an unaudited income of Rp 19.5 trillion in 2011, a 39 pct increase compared to the Rp 19.5 trillion gained in 2010. Garuda`s president director Emirsyah Satar said in Jakarta Thursday the performance was made by operational expansion of the company by way of the Quantum Leap program, efficiency and asset utilization. Therefore he said in 2011 Garuda managed to carry 17.1 million passengers consisting of 13.9 million domestic and 3.2 million international passengers. "The number was also a 36.8 pct increase compared to the 12.53 million passengers in 2010," he said. Not only that, availability of seats per kilometer (ASK) in 2011 increased 26 pct to 32.5 billion compared to 25.77 billion in 2010. In the meantime, the passenger yield increased 12.4 pct to USC 9.63 US dollar cents compared to 8.6 US dollar cents in 2010. In 2011, Garuda`s flight frequency (domestic and international) also increased by 27 pct to 130,043 flights compared to 102,724 flights in 2010. In the meantime the Seat Load Factor had been raised by 5 pct to 74.7 pct from 71.7 pct in a year earlier. The utilization of planes also increased from 9:23 hours in 2010 to 10:40 hours in 2011. In the meantime the On Time Performance (OTP) also increased to 85.68 pct compared to 80.15 pct last year. "Our domestic market share also increased to 28.3 pct, five percent compared to last year`s 23.7 pct," he said. He also said that the domestic air passenger market in 2011 increased 16 pct, but Garuda`s passenger market increased 36 pct. "This is higher than those of other airline companies with only an average of 9 pct," he said. In the meantime, the number of international passengers increased 12 pct, and the market of Garuda increased 29.5 pct eight pct higher than those of other airline companies. Increase in number of planes With regard to the increase in the number of planes, Emirsyah said last year Garuda received 11 new planes, namely two A330-200 and nine 9 B737-800 Next Generation aircraft. "In 2011, the total number of our planes reached 88 with an average length of service of 6.5 years, higher than the rate of 2010 with 8.1 years," he said. In 2011 Garuda inaugurated Makassar as the third hub following Jakarta and Denpasar. As a hub, Emirsyah said, Makassar links 15 cities in Sulawesi, Maluku, Papua and Singapore. "We have also opened seven new routes in 2011, namely Makassar-Gorontalo, Surabaya-Ambon, Makassar-Balikpapan, Makassar-Singapore, Makassar-Ternate, Surabaya-Balikpapan, and Balikpapan-Jogjakarta," he said. In the meantime, in 2011, Garuda increased flight frequency to various domestic and international cities. The routes included Jakarta-Shanghai, Jakarta-Seoul, Denpasar- Seoul, and Jakarta-Sydney from 5 to 7 times a week.