Publicly listed airline company PT Garuda Indonesia plans to
purchase up to 50 turboprop aircraft to serve short route flights in
the country, an executive has said.
Garuda president director
Emirsyah Satar said Tuesday that his company was assessing turboprop
planes made in Canada, as well as those made by French-Italian
manufacturers.
“We are evaluating the ATR and Q400 types. We hope
to complete the plan by the end of this year. The turboprop will be
operated by Citilink, Garuda’s low-cost carrier, starting from next
year, hopefully” Emirsyah said.
According to Emirsyah, each turboprop, which could carry up to 70 passengers, would cost about $20 million.
By
the end of the first half of 2012, Garuda had a total of 95 planes. The
company’s target is to obtain 105 planes by the end of this year and
244 aircraft by 2015.
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