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Citilink Indonesia, a subsidiary of Garuda Indonesia that focuses on low cost services (LCC) will officially make regular flights to China at the end of October 2018. President Director of Citilink Indonesia, Juliandra Nurtjahjo said in Jakarta on Friday that his side plans to open three routes of regular flights which expected to enhance the existence of Citilink Indonesia in China as a World Class LCC after previously successfully opening charter flight routes.

"So today, we start collaborating with Megacap as our partner and this is the first Citilink’s regular flight to China. So far, my friends have heard that Citilink flew to China, we flew charter. Thus, Citilink has operated only charter flight. Especially in the Chinese market, we are regular with partners and we  fly regularly to China on schedule. The existence of Citilink is increasingly seen in China. And, Citilink doesn't close the charter one; the charter keeps going on," Juliandra said.

Juliandra added that regular international flight routes to China are the ones from Jakarta to three cities: Xiamen, Kunming and Nanjang. He also remarked that the focus of Citilink Indonesia's expansion to China is secondary cities, which have considerable potential and have not been reached by many world airlines. Citilink Indonesia also sees the opening of this regular international route as a form of airline support for the Indonesian Ministry of Tourism program to get a target of 20 million foreign tourists to Indonesia before 2019. Citilink Indonesia's new routes to several cities in China is a realization of the expansion of regular international route services in Asian regions in addition to Denpasar flights - Dili and Jakarta - Penang. (VOI/Rezha/RHM)