“By 7 p.m. on Monday, the number of flights at Soekarno-Hatta airport had reached 454, higher than the 430 flights recorded the previous day,” Muhammad Awaluddin, the president director of airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II, said on Tuesday as quoted by kompas.com.

Awaluddin said the figure was quite surprising, because Sunday was usually the busiest time for the airport. "However, on Monday, the first day of the transitional PSBB in Jakarta, flight traffic was 5 percent higher than on Sunday," he said.

Awaluddin also explained that the increase in the number of flights at the airport, which is located in Tangerang, Banten, had a direct impact on the 19 airports operated by PT Angkasa Pura. 

He said the rise in air traffic was a sign of growing public trust in air transportation in line with the safe travel campaign run by Soekarno-Hatta International Airport over the last three months.

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan announced the reintroduction of the transitional PSBB in the capital on Sunday, almost a month after reimposing the strict PSBB on Sept. 14. The transitional PSBB will stay in place at least until Oct. 25.

“We implemented the emergency brake policy [by reinstating the full-fledged PSBB] for about a month, because the number of cases had been getting out of control. After the number of new cases became more stable, we started to release the brake gradually, step by step,” Anies said in a written statement on Sunday. 

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