TransNusa Airlines has yet again achieved another milestone by becoming the only airline to offer Malaysians the option to fly to Jakarta from the newly redeveloped Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, popularly known as Subang Airport.
TransNusa Group Chief Executive Officer, Datuk Bernard Francis said, “We are honoured and thrilled to successfully launch our new scheduled Jakarta – Subang route today. This route will allow our potential passengers in Malaysia to opt to fly from Subang Airport to Jakarta or from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to Jakarta.
TransNusa’s inaugural flight from Jakarta departed the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport from Terminal 3 at 11.00am and arrived at Subang Airport at 02.00pm today (Aug 1, 2024).
Francis said TransNusa will be operating one daily scheduled flight from Terminal 3, Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Subang Airport.
The flight, 8B 699, will depart Jakarta at 04.10pm and arrive at the Subang Airport at 07.00pm while TransNusa flight, 8B 698, will depart Subang Airport at 07.30pm and arrive in Jakarta at 08.30pm. TransNusa will be utilizing its A320 narrow-body airliner, which has 174 seats, to cater for the two-hour scheduled flight. TransNusa tickets for this route are competitively priced from RM299.
Francis clarified that although TransNusa has launched this new route, the airline would still continue to operate three scheduled daily flights from Jakarta to KLIA and four scheduled flights weekly from Jakarta to Johor Bahru.
On what passengers can expect from TransNusa in future, Francis said, “As a Premium Service Carrier, our main priority is to provide our passengers with not only comfort, safety and good experience but also alternative options and competitive pricing.
“Hence, we will continuously aim to provide our passengers with new creative routes and accommodate their need to save time, to have as many options as possible, to have a comfortable experience and to have peace of mind while travelling.”
Francis explained that since TransNusa’s reintroduction in August 2022, the airline has been planning, creating and developing new ways to enhance passenger travel experience, provide alternative travel slots as well as competitive pricing.
Meanwhile Mr. Manoharan Periasamy, Director General of Tourism Malaysia said, “Since the re-launch of TransNusa in 2022, the airline has grown and made a valuable contribution to the tourism industry in Malaysia by offering Indonesian passengers additional and competitive flights to Kuala Lumpur.
“We anticipate that TransNusa will keep expanding and make a significant contribution to the travel and tourism sectors in both nations,” he continued.
TransNusa, which had to close its business operation in September 2020 due to impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the aviation industry, started operations again after injection of new shareholders and management team headed by Datuk Bernard Francis in October 2022.
Within six months, the airline introduced its first international route between Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur and celebrated its first-year anniversary for this route on April 14, 2024.
“When we re-launched TransNusa in October 2022, we started from the bottom again. We had no aircraft or roadmap to follow. Everything was new because the pandemic had broken the aviation business operations boundaries. We re-created and customised our business operations and strategy model of being the first Premium Service Carrier based on the post-pandemic scenario,” Francis explained.
“As such, for us, being handpicked by the Malaysian Aviation Commission as the only airline to operate from the Subang Airport to offer daily scheduled flights from Jakarta is another milestone,” Francis said.
TransNusa launched its first international route between Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur in April, 2023, after which the airline successfully launched three more new international routes by the end of last year. TransNusa’s aggressive international growth strategy combined with its domestic business operations approach has enabled the airline to be the fastest growing airline in South East Asia.
Since the takeover of the new shareholders and management team, TransNusa has been contributing and changing the aviation landscape in South East Asia. It has been making headlines in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, China and around the world with news of being the first airline in Indonesia and the world to develop and introduce a new domestic route connecting Bali and Manado. TransNusa also became the second Indonesian airline to receive approval to fly to China and provided Indonesians with more pricing and route options to China. In addition, the airline also became the first airline outside China to utilise the COMAC ARJ21-700.
Source – TransNusa Airlines