TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Low-cost carrier Indonesia Air Asia flew more than 310,000 passengers during the Eid homecoming or "mudik" period from April 3 to 18. The budget airline operated 2,000 flights during the period.

"This is an increase of five percent compared to the same period last year," Indonesia AirAsia president director Veranita Yosephine Sinaga said in a written statement on Tuesday, April 16.

Veranita said the airline's best-selling domestic routes were Denpasar and Lampung, while passengers' favorite international routes were Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

"The load factor for all flights during the Eid 20204 period was between 85 and 87 percent," she said.

Meanwhile, state-owned airport operator PT Angkasa Pura II recorded 309,477 passenger movement in 20 airports during the peak return traffic on Monday, April 15, four days after Eid. The movement in these airports increased quite significantly by 24 percent compared to the fourth day after Eid last year.

"The number of aircraft movements reached 2,010 flights, up 11 percent from the previous period's 1,808 flights," AP II's VP of corporate communications Cin Asmoro said in a written statement on Tuesday, April 16.

Cin said that specifically at Soekarno-Hatta Airport — the country's largest and busiest — the number of passengers at the peak of the return flow reached 186,774 people on 1,153 flights.

Meanwhile, the Transportation Ministry recorded that the number of air passengers on the fifth day after Eid reached 309,473 people, an increase of 91.32 percent compared to normal days.

Joniansyah

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