Batik adds Bali flight from India, China is next

A plane from the Batik Air fleet. Photo: Flickr
A plane from the Batik Air fleet. Photo: Flickr

Batik Air is adding more international flights to its roster, with routes to India and China.

A new route from Denpasar to Indian city Chennai kicked off this past Sunday. The route flies daily with transit in KL, Malaysia.

Batik is a part of Indonesia’s Lion Air Group, that first took flight in 2013.

The airline’s expansion to India via Chennai is in line with Indonesia’s goal to increase foreign tourist arrivals, says Andy M Saladin, Public Relations Manager of Lion Air Group.

“We are very pleased and proud that Batik Air is providing more and more flights to our customers, and with this new route to Chennai we hope to further expand our tourism growth in Indonesia by bringing in foreign tourists,” Saladin told Kompas.

Growing its network, Batik added a flight to Perth in June this year, after much anticipation.

In addition to the new Perth and Chennai routes, Batik has plans to add more flights from China.

“It does not stop with Perth and Chennai. Next month, Batik will a flight to China that we are still planning,” Batik Air President Director Achmad Luthfie said in Bali on Monday.

The general manager of Bali’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Yanus Suprayogi, apparently enthusiastically welcomed Luthfie’s statement on Monday.

“We, on behalf of the management of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, are very supportive of every airline adding new routes, because it’s a commitment of PT Angkasa Pura (Indonesia’s airport manager) to increase the traffic of foreign tourists coming to visit Indonesia,” Suprayogi said.

Indonesia has set a national target of 15 million foreign tourist visitors for 2017 and hopes Bali will bring in 40 percent of the target.



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