Garuda's Income Rp27.1 Trillion In 2011

Jakarta (Antara Bali) - State airline company PT Garuda Indonesia (Garuda) has announced an unaudited income of Rp 19.5 trillion in 2011, a 39 pct increase compared to the Rp 19.5 trillion gained in 2010.

Garuda's president director Emirsyah Satar said in Jakarta Thursday the performance was made by operational expansion of the company by way of the Quantum Leap program, efficiency and asset utilization.

Therefore he said in 2011  Garuda managed to carry 17.1 million passengers consisting of 13.9 million domestic and 3.2 million international passengers.

"The number was also a 36.8 pct increase compared to the 12.53 million passengers in 2010," he said.

Not only that, availability of seats per  kilometer (ASK) in  2011 increased 26 pct to 32.5 billion compared to 25.77 billion in  2010.

In the meantime, the passenger yield increased 12.4 pct to USC 9.63 US dollar cents compared to 8.6 US dollar cents in 2010.

In 2011, Garuda's flight frequency (domestic and international) also increased by 27 pct to 130,043 flights compared to 102,724 flights in 2010.

In the meantime the Seat Load Factor had been raised by  5 pct to 74.7 pct from 71.7 pct in a year earlier.

The utilization of planes also increased from 9:23 hours in  2010 to 10:40 hours in 2011.(IGT/T007)