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Sriwijaya, NAM Air to add 6,900 extra seats for holiday season
The country's third largest carrier Sriwijaya Air and its subsidiary NAM Air will provide 6,900 extra seats to meet a surge in demand due to the Good Friday holiday
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he country's third largest carrier Sriwijaya Air and its subsidiary NAM Air will provide 6,900 extra seats to meet a surge in demand due to the Good Friday holiday.
Sriwijaya Air is adding more seats to its Denpasar-Dili, Surabaya-Semarang, Jakarta-Tanjung Pandan, Jakarta-Malang and Surabaya-Makassar routes, by, for example, in the case of the Denpasar-Dili service, increasing flights on Monday, Friday and Sunday to twice daily.
Meanwhile, NAM Air will provide extra flights for its Surabaya-Denpasar route on April 17 and 20, increasing its scheduled flights to two on those dates.
Sriwijaya senior corporate communications manager Agus Soedjono said that both airlines were monitoring demand and there was a possibility that even more seats would be added over the long weekend.
"We predict that the demand from customers will still increase in the next few days. We encourage our customers to immediately book their flights," Agus said in a statement made available to The Jakarta Post on Monday.
Sriwijaya currently operates 36 planes consisting 15 Boeing B737-500s, 12 B737-300s, five B737-400s and four B737-800 Next Generation (NG). NAM Air operates two B737-500s. (nfo)
