D-8 Civil Aviation Meeting Leads Cooperation between Garuda Indonesia and Turkish Airlines

Bali, Indonesia | June 22, 2008 by D-8 Secretariat

Flag carrier Garuda Indonesia on Wednesday forged partnership with Turkish Airlines to expand their market network in the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Under an MoU agreement signed on Indonesia ’s Bali resort island, which came during the 3rd meeting of the Working Group of Civil Aviation of D-8 Countries, the two companies will jointly launch promotion to boost people traffic between Turkey and Indonesia.

The agreement signed by Garuda president Emirsyah Satar and Turkish Airlines president Candan Karlitekin also calls for cooperation in plane maintenance and overhaul. Since there are no direct flights between Indonesia and Turkey , air passengers heading for Indonesia will use Turkish Airlines planes and switch to Garuda planes during the transit in Singapore.

“This cooperation has great potentials to boost passenger traffic between the two countries because it offers unique and valuable tourist attractions,” Emirsyah said. He said that they expect to serve 20,000 passangers per year from Istanbul, Turkey to Indonesia. The cooperation also will significantly supported the Visit Indonesia Year 2008 Program launched by the Indonesian government, since the Turkish market is very potential and mostly the passanger so far are coming to Indonesia through Bangkok, or Singapore.

Turkish Airlines flies from Istanbul to Bangkok four times a week, while from Singapore five times a week. On the other hand, Garuda Indonesia Airlines flies to Singapore 11 times a week, and has a daily flight to Bangkok.

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