- a national private airline, Mandala Airlines, a target capable of carrying as many as four million passengers this year.
“If years ago, we could only 3.4 million people so the 4 million this year, along with the arrival of three A-320 aircraft this year,” said President Director of Mandala Airlines, Diono Nurjadin to the press on the sidelines of the launch of “Fly` n Shop Home Delivery “in Jakarta on Monday (6/21/2010).
Diono acknowledge, with three additional aircraft until the end of this year, the total aircraft that the airline operated 10 units.
Number one man in this Mandala admitted, three aircraft were not new, but making a relatively young age. “The plane just started our new orders come from next year. In 2011, six of our aircraft scheduled to come in stages next year. The aircraft are part of the 25 A-320 aircraft orders to us,” he said.
Diono also said it is now prepared to increase the frequency of flights in order to face the coming school vacation season began this month. “We started getting ready, start adding up the frequency of some routes to optimize the evaluation,” he said.
Shopping services associated with the launch of an “online” exclusive goods are Mandala Airlines, Diono said that it is the first time in Indonesia. “In other countries, this is already common,” he said.
Diono also said the shopping “online” Mandala goods, other than to increase revenues, as well as for imaging. “It was automatic because the buyer the goods are not only ordered by those who fly, but other consumers could also,” he said.
Diono stated that he hopes to increase sales of goods as much as 120 exclusive items up to 15 percent. “In a situation of passenger-season, revenues from these exclusive goods reached USD 600 million per month,” he said.
Mandala until now operates seven A320 and A319 aircraft and serves 19 destinations in Indonesia, including a number of regional destinations. With the condition that, each day the airline is providing 110 times the frequency of flights and seats 550 000 flights per month.
