Garuda Indonesia is ready to carry 34,112 potential pilgrims from Central Java and Yogyakarta



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Merdeka.com – Garuda Indonesia Airlines is ready to deploy pilgrim candidates from Central Java and the Yogyakarta Special Region (DIY) from 17 July 2018. A total of 34,122 pilgrims will be sent to 95 flying groups (Kloter) from Donohudan Embarquement, Solo. The number of pilgrims is almost the same as that of 34,200 people last year.

Managing Director of Garuda Indonesia Solo's subsidiary, Hendrawan said that the transport of Hajj is divided into two phases. To know the phase of departure from July 17th to August 15th. And the repatriation phase is from August 26th to September 25th. In the first kloter will be sent the congregation of the regency Tegal up to 360 people of Embarkasi Solo at 17:35

"For the start phase is divided into two waves from 17 to 29 July with the Solo route -Madinah via Padang, second wave from July 30 to August 15 Padang solo transit to Jeddah, "said Hendrawan, Tuesday (10/7).

For repatriation, continued Hendrawan, will also be divided into two waves. Namely from August 26 to September 7 with the road Jeddah-Ahmedabad India-Solo. While the second wave began on September 8th to 25th with the Madinah-Ahmedabad-Solo road.

Hendrawan explained that the departure of the Solo boarding will be served with five types of Airbus A330 aircraft. For each plane, it has a capacity of 360 seats. Of the totality of the congregation carried by Garuda were 107,959 pilgrims, of whom 30% left Solo embarkation

"We are therefore the largest embarkation in Indonesia, 30% of Garuda pilgrims departed from Solo" . 19659003] Suwarto, station manager of the subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia Solo added, for the return is estimated there will be a delay of about 45 minutes. This is due to weather factors that occur. The wind direction from the East of the country to Indonesia will experience headwinds. As a result, the speed of the plane will decrease, because we are upwind.

"When the return is estimated there is a headwind, so we calculate that the return will be delayed up to 45 minutes.

only 11 hours 45 minutes, for Haj season this time will be slightly late.However, he hopes that there will be no additional time changes. [bal]

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