A new airline called Sky Aviation (motto “Welcome to our Sky”) recently commenced flights to several cities in Sumatra (including the Riau Islands and Bangka Belitung), Java and Bali.
It seems Sky Aviation has a small budget for marketing; the author has only seen one advertisement in a small regional newspaper (below), so probably few people have heard of them.
A rare advertisement for Sky Aviation
On a lighter note, it doesn’t help that some Wikipedia airport pages have links for Sky Aviation pointing to a similarly-named airline in Sierra Leone, a small West African country.
This is a pity because Sky Aviation have some very useful flights to/from remote areas. Sky’s other flights reduce travel times for people who need to get around in a hurry, and increase comfort for people who do not wish to e.g. bump along in a bus on poor quality roads.
Sky Aviation has hub airports in Surabaya (East Java), Palembang (South Sumatra) and Batam (Riau Islands, near Sumatra and next to Singapore).
Some of these cities are quite small, with few or no other commercial flights. Therefore, each destination city’s province is included in brackets.
HUB AIRPORT | DESTINATIONS |
Surabaya (East Java) | Bandarlampung (Lampung), Bandung (West Java), Banyuwangi (East Java), Denpasar (Bali), Solo (Central Java) |
Batam (Riau Islands) |
Dabo Singkep (Riau Islands), Dumai (North Sumatra), Matak/Natuna Islands (Riau Islands), Pangkal Pinang (Bangka Belitung), Rengat (Riau), Tanjung Pinang/Bintan (Riau Islands) |
Palembang (South Sumatra) | Bandarlampung (Lampung), Bengkulu (Bengkulu), Jambi (Jambi), Kerinci (Jambi), Lebuk Langgur (South Sumatra), Pangkal Pinang (Bangka Belitung), Pekanbaru (Riau), Tanjung Pandan (Bangka Belitung) |
But rather than just give a list of cities, here are some reasons why to visit some of these destinations:
Banyuwangi (from Denpasar or Surabaya)
Nearest airport to the spectacular views and not-so-spectacular smell of Ijen Plateau, a moonscape-like volcano with an aqua-coloured lake and a sulphur vent. It is a regular stop on the Jakarta to Bali tourist trail, and many like to make the 90 minute hike up the mountain in time for sunrise.
Kerinci (from Palembang or Jambi)
One for the serious trekkers, Indonesia’s Mt Kerinci (3800m) is Indonesia’s tallest active volcano. If you want to save your energy for the trail and not use it up on many hours of slow and crowded buses, this is an option worth considering.
Bengkulu (from Palembang)
Indonesia’s remote Sumatran capital is hoping to foster an increase in tourism with improved accommodation facilities at the nearby Panjang Beach. You can read an interesting review here.
Sky Aviation’s flight schedule in Java can be viewed on the full-size version of the advertisement above.
Sky Aviation’s flight schedule in Pangkal Pinang
For other destinations, you can view Sky Aviation’s online flight schedule here. It is in English and Indonesian; curiously, it only lists departure times, not arrival times.
Sky Aviation currently uses mostly Fokker 50 aircraft, but have also recently ordered 12 Sukhoi Superjets.
Their free checked baggage allowance is 15 kg. They offer e-ticketing but not online booking. One way fares from e.g. Surabaya to Banyuwangi start at $US40.
If you would like to book a flight on Sky Aviation, please fill in a enquiry form here.
Where i can take ticket by online?
Hello Chris, Thanks for adding Sky Aviation in your site. And thanks to you, because you put up the information about the wrong link in Wiki to Siera so we can fix the links on wiki.
We will improve the site, and by the way, we update the site with travel information in Bengkulu and Jambi as well, and also this comes up because your brief info as well.
in short, thanks Chris.
How do I get a hold of the main office for SKY Aviation? All of their email links all getting bounced back?
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Well they do sound useful don’t they, I do plan to try out that Surabaya to Banyuwangi flight at some point, plus from their website
Can’t work out why nobody ever trademarked that brilliant slogan before…
Not a bad site though and the Travel Destinations section is a good idea, um, although I just checked and the text for the two articles is just ripped from Wikipedia or elsewhere.