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Indonesia Civil Aviation
The government-operated airline, Garuda Indonesian
Airways,
concentrated on international jet service; about 80
percent of
Garuda's revenue was generated by international flights in
the
early 1990s. In 1988 Garuda's fleet totaled seventy-three
aircraft.
Domestic service was provided by several smaller firms,
including
Merpati Nusantara Airlines, a subsidiary of Garuda, and
Sempati Air
Services, the first private firm that was permitted to
provide
international jet service in the early 1990s. A total
fleet of 102
propeller-driven aircraft offered scheduled domestic
services in FY
1988, although about 600 additional aircraft were in
commercial
nonscheduled operation.
The major Sukarno-Hatta International Airport in
Cengkareng
Subdistrict, West Jakarta (Jakarta Barat), opened in 1985.
Other
major airports were being expanded in the early 1990s,
including
airports located in Denpasar, Medan, and Surabaya and on
Batam
Island. An agreement reached between Indonesia and
Singapore in
1992 for the first time permitted direct flights to and
from
Singapore from other major Indonesian cities, including
Surabaya
and Denpasar. In total, in the early 1990s, Indonesia had
470
airports, 436 of which were categorized as usable and 111
of which
had permanent-surface runways. Only six of the airports
could
handle Boeing-747-type aircraft.
Data as of November 1992
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