2010, Garuda Cooperation contract signature Rp2 Trillion

PT Garuda Indonesia is targeting corporate sales cooperates with 750 companies or equivalent to Rp2 trillion this year.

"With this partnership, each company that builds collaboration, all family members of employees and the company will use the Garuda Indonesia flight to domestic and international routes," said President Director of Garuda Indonesia Ermisyah Satar, Thursday (15 April 2010).

In this collaborative program, companies that work together to get a good discount on a business trip or leisure travel as well as specialized services such as special corporate net fare, priority reservation, check-in city and ease of bookkeeping.

To achieve this target, Emirsyah said it plans to build cooperation with 29 state enterprises. "For the first phase, build our cooperation with PT Krakatau Steel (KS)," he explained.

In addition to building cooperation corporate sales, Garuda Indonesia will also conduct cooperation in transport ticketing system Intermoda with SOEs.

Intermoda is cooperation ticket forms canal, so that with the existence of this partnership, passengers can directly Garuda buy one ticket to travel with other vehicles and the Garuda aircraft at once.

Emirsyah target, in 2015, Garuda Indonesia will be able to do the same job with the company's marine Intermoda Indonesia (PELNI). It hopes to, cooperation with Pelni Intermoda was done especially for the eastern part of Indonesia.

However, Emirsyah admit, not easy in this Intermoda build cooperation. Section, this cooperation is necessary synergy that is strong enough, especially in terms of information technology. Given this cooperation, Emirsyah passenger growth target of 10 percent.

"Passenger our domestic average and one passenger can last five to six times a year. Mean 40 million passengers, divided only five means eight million who fly, so its potential is still huge, "he explained.

Another challenge in this program, he continued, is the problem of infrastructure. "Now that there is a solid plane at the airport. Preparing for a difficult airport was addressed, "he explained.