Garuda Indonesia confirms Hajj wet-leases

New corruption indictment for former Garuda Indonesia CEO

Prosecutors at Jakarta's Central Corruption Court indicted a former Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) CEO on September 18, accusing him, along with several other former senior executives at the airline and other entities, of causing losses totalling IDR9.37 trillion rupiah (USD609.1 million) in a deal to acquire CRJ1000s and ATR72-600s.

Emirsyah Satar, who ran Garuda between 2005 and 2014, is charged with causing financial losses to the state, along with:

• Agus Wahyudo, former executive project manager of aircraft delivery at Garuda;
• Hadinoto Soedigono, former director of engineering and fleet management at Garuda;
• Adrian Azhar, former vice president of fleet acquisition at Garuda;
• Albert Burhan, former vice president of treasury management at Garuda;
• Setijo Awibowo, former vice president of strategic management at Garuda; and
• Soetikno Soedarjo, a commercial advisor who represented the interests of ATR - Avions de Transport Régional and Bombardier Aerospace.

The indictment proceedings, reported by Indonesian media outlets, alleged the accused acted to financially benefit themselves as well as Bombardier, ATR, and...

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Garuda Indonesia to open Jayapura base

Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) is increasing its flying from Jayapura in Papua province, according to the airline's senior official in the city, Agny Gallus Pratama. The shift involves redeploying at least one aircraft, now based at Jakarta Soekarno Hatta Airport, to Papua, increasing frequencies on some existing routes in and out of Jayapura, and introducing new routes.

"At the end of the third and fourth weeks of October, we will have additional flight schedules, direct Jayapura-Jakarta, which previously were once a day, but we will serve them ten times a week," he told local media outlets late last week.

The current once-weekly Garuda services on the Jayapura - Biak sector will increase to three times a week, while direct flights on the Jayapura - Makassar and Jayapura - Merauke routes will also operate at thrice-weekly frequencies. In addition, flights originating in Jayapura will also fly to Denpasar six times per week, with three flights going via Makassar and three via Tembagapura. Pratama told the outlets that the increase...

Garuda Indonesia blocks bid to void PKPU process