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The Indonesian Air Carriers Association, INACA expects another double digit growth in domestic passengers this year, spurred by Indonesia’s 6.4% economic growth, said Chairman Emirsyah Satar, who is also CEO of Garuda Indonesia.
In the past six years domestic passengers has grown above expectation. In 2009, there were 43.8 million passengers, an increase of 16% above the previous year’s 37 million passengers.
Although officially the Ministry of Communications projects domestic passengers to increase by 10%, yet all indications are that this target may be exceeded to reach 15%, said Director for Air transportation, Tri S. Sunoko.
In the first three months of 2010 alone Indonesian airlines carried 11.643 million passengers, up 20.7% compared to the same period last year, which is phenomenal, considering that this occurred during a normally low season.
Data also show that the three largest shares of domestic passengers went to Indonesia’s three top airlines, namely Lion Air, Garuda Indonesia and Sriwijaya Air, according to Kompas. In the first two months of 2010, of the total 6.63 million domestic passengers carried, Lion Air took 41.9% share or 2.7 million passengers, followed by Garuda Indonesia with 19.1% share carrying 1.27 million passengers, and third was Sriwijaya Air with 15.9% share, carrying 1.06 million passengers.
Meanwhile from January through March, Indonesian airlines carried 1.4 million passengers overseas or a huge increase of 39.8% compared to the same time in 2009.
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