Travelers take note: there will be one big change to terminal assignments at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport that is coming into effect tomorrow.
As reported by Kontan, starting 3 am tomorrow, all AirAsia flights will depart from Terminal 2. This involves moving AirAsia’s international flights, which currently fly out of Terminal 3, to Terminal 2, which is already home to the airline’s domestic flights.
The airport’s management says the move is a step towards transforming Terminal 2 into a low-cost carrier terminal. The government is currently in the process of gradually renovating Terminal 1 and 2 which will see huge increases to their capacities once it’s finished in 2021.
“The capacity in each terminal is 9 million [per year], but later it will be 25 million,” Soekarno-Hatta Spokesperson Febri Toga Simatupang said.
AirAsia moved its international flights to Terminal 3 — Soekarno Hatta’s newest — soon after the building was opened in 2016. The terminal currently handles all of Indonesian flag carrier Garuda Indonesia’s flights, both domestic and international, as well as international flights operated by the likes of Singapore Airlines, KLM, and All Nippon Airways.
Terminal 2 also handles a mix of domestic and international flights, including those operated by Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines, though those flights are expected to be moved to Terminal 3 in the future as well. Meanwhile, Terminal 1 exclusively handles domestic flights, mostly operated by Lion Air and Garuda’s low-cost carrier subsidiary Citilink.
You can check Soekarno-Hatta’s official website for a full list of airlines and their respective terminals, though, at the time of writing, it has not been updated to include AirAsia’s imminent move to Terminal 2.
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