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Govt aims to reduce airfares by 10 percent by October
Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno said the price reduction would help regions where airline tickets were more costly than average, particularly destinations in eastern Indonesia and Sumatra.
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Green flight: Technicians prepare a Garuda Indonesia plane for a test flight using sustainable aviation fuel on Oct. 27, 2023, at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, Banten. The plane successfully landed in Adi Sumarmo Airport in Surakarta, Central Java, later that day.
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he government is aiming to bring down domestic airfares by 10 percent before the current administration ends in October, Tourism and Creative Economy Minister Sandiaga Uno said on Sunday.
Sandiaga said this would help regions where airline tickets were more costly than average, particularly destinations in eastern Indonesia and Sumatra.
“We are still exploring [how to achieve the price reduction],” Sandiaga told reporters in East Java, as quoted by Detik.
Statistics Indonesia data shows 62.55 million people took domestic flights last year, below the pre-pandemic level of 76.69 million in 2019.
Meanwhile, only 15.63 million people took flights into or out of Indonesia last year, below the 18.86 million recorded in 2019.
Local businesses blame high airfares for hampering the recovery of the country’s tourism sector.
The government previously suggested the high airfares were a result of rapidly increasing demand and curtailed supply as two years of mobility restrictions forced airlines to cut costs by reducing their fleets.
