Garuda Indonesia to connect Chennai-Medan daily from April next year

Mumbai: Indonesia's flag carrier, Garuda Indonesia will start flying daily on the Chennai-Medan route from April, 2008, Dharmendra Gursahani, Director, SMD Travel Corporation, which has been newly appointed as the airline's General Sales Agent (GSA) in India, confirmed with TravelBiz Monitor. The airline will deploy a B737-500 aircraft with a configuration of 84 seats in the economy class and 12 seats in the business class. "The airline will connect Chennai to Medan and fly onward to Singapore. Indian passengers will also be able to opt for connecting flights from Medan to Denpasar and Jakarta," informed Gursahani.
According to Gursahani, this will see it connecting cities like Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad to Medan and onwards, potentially, to Australia. For now, it has signed an interline agreement with Jet Airways, which will provide for feeder traffic from other cities into Chennai. Its ground handling operations will be managed by Air India.
08/12/07 Bhisham Mansukhani/TravelBizMonitor

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Categories: Foreign Dec 2007