Letter: Clarification from Garuda Indonesia

With reference to the report on Garuda Indonesia’s delayed flight GA-222 from Jakarta to Solo metioned in The Jakarta Post on Sept. 8, we would like to convey the following clarification to avoid any confusion.

For commercial considerations, a flight can wait until the arrival of a group or a fairly large number of passengers before departure. The same is true in the case of passengers with a connecting flight who have to move to another airplane.

In relation to the GA-222 flight, Democratic Party secretary-general Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono (Ibas) never asked Garuda to delay the flight until his group’s arrival.

What happened was just part of our standard operational procedure, where the flight had to be delayed for around 10 minutes since a fairly large number of passengers were due to board.

Pujobroto
VP Corporate communications
PT Garuda Indonesia
Jakarta