Jakarta’s Halim Airport to re-open for commercial flights.
UPDATE 2014 Halim Perdanakusuma Airport will commence commercial operations on 10 January 2014. Citilink will be the first airline, operating flights between Jakarta and the following cities: Yogyakarta, Semarang, Malang and Palembang. AirAsia and Garuda will follow with some flights (probably not all) in the future. |
Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK) has another problem: for much of the day, it has reached its peak capacity for take-offs and landings. This means there is no room available for new flights to/from Jakarta, a serious problem for new and expanding airlines, e.g. Sky Aviation, Pacific Royale, the resurrected Mandala Air.
While plans are afoot to expand Soekarno-Hatta and build a new airport in Karawang (70km east of Jakarta), these will take years to complete.
In response, Indonesia’s Transport Ministry has announced an interim solution: it will re-open Jakarta’s previous airport, Halim Perdanakusuma (HLP).
Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in East Jakarta was the city’s international airport until the construction of Soekarno-Hatta Airport in the 1980s.
Three recent arrivals at Halim
These days it is used by military aircraft, Indonesia’s President and the occasional VIP.
Top left: Soekarno-Hatta Airport,
Bottom right: Halim Perdanakusuma Airport
Halim Airport would be closer and more convenient for many Jakartans, as well as tourists staying in Central, East and South Jakarta.
It is not known how East Jakarta residents will react to the prospect of (as well as reduced travel time) increased noise, air pollution, etc. However, Soekarno-Hatta Airport management rarely concerns itself about such things, regularly evicting nearby residents to make way for the airport’s latest expansion plans.
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Indonesian Military Aircraft Crashes Near East Jakarta Airport
A Fokker 27 airplane operated by the Indonesian Military (TNI) crashed near Halim Perdanakusuma Airport in East Jakarta on Thursday.
It is not clear yet how many people were onboard the aircraft, but local TV station Metro TV reported that the plane crashed into eight houses in a neighborhood near the airport, which is a base of the Indonesian Air Force. The houses were reportedly torched.