Budget airlines bank on Indonesian boom

July 4, 2012

More than 8m Indonesians flew internationally last year, up 23 per cent on  2010, with 60m domestic air travel passengers, up 16 per cent on 2010. By 2016,  the government is forecasting 15m international passengers and 120m domestic  passengers.

To tap this growth, airlines old and new are expanding in this nation of 240m people, defying the dark clouds that hang over the industry elsewhere in the world.

While carriers are expanding  in other Asian emerging markets such as the Philippines and Vietnam,  Indonesia is particularly attractive because its people live on 6,000 different  islands that stretch 5,000km from east to west, offering significant potential  to develop air travel, domestically and internationally.

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