Welcoming the Christmas and New Year holidays, Indonesian flight activities are indeed dense because many people use air transportation to travel.
Moreover, the government’s promise to reduce tickets by 10% ahead of this holiday has also increased public interest. Minister of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) Erick Thohir confirmed that, per President Prabowo Subianto’s instructions, they implemented the airplane ticket price reduction, particularly at Soekarno-Hatta Airport.
To accommodate the need, as many as 37 airports in Indonesia will operate for 24 hours, facilitating mobility and preventing accumulation.
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Company in the aviation and tourism sector PT Aviani Pariwisata Indonesia or InJourney is ready to operate 37 airports for 24 hours in order to support the Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 holidays.
“We are also preparing our airports. 37 of our airports will operate 24 hours,” InJourney President Director Maya Watono said Friday, December 6, 2024, as reported by Antara.
This 24-hour Operating Hour arrangement, she continued, began for 18 days, starting from December 19 to January 5, 2025.
Maya said that experts predict the peak departure flow will occur on December 20, 2024, and the peak return flow will occur on January 4, 2024.
InJourney Airports expects a 4.52 percent increase in passenger traffic during the Christmas-New Year period compared to last year’s figures; international passenger traffic in 2024 amounted to 2.2 million, a 23.2 per cent rise from 1.79 million in the prior year. For domestic passengers in 2024 amounted to 6 million pax.
Soekarno-Hatta and Ngurah Rai airports will experience the most crowding during the Christmas and New Year holidays
Soekarno-Hatta Airport and I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport are predicted to be the most crowded airports during the Nataru holiday period this year. The number of passenger movements at Soekarno-Hatta Airport during the holidays period is estimated to increase by 8.92% compared to Nataru last year.
Meanwhile, passenger movements at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport are projected to increase by 12.05% during the holidays period compared to last year. Injourney predicts that the peak departure flow will occur on December 20, 2024, and the peak return flow will occur on January 4, 2025.
