Garuda offers flights for Sulawesi pilgrims
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Garuda Indonesia is planning to launch a new flight that would allow Muslim residents of Makassar, on the island of Sulawesi, to travel to Saudi Arabia for the Umrah religious festival.
Commencing in February 2014, the Indonesian national carrier will connect Sulawesi with Jeddah, via Medan. Previously, pilgrims from Sulawesi had to fly in and out of Jakarta.
“With the new flight route Makassar-Medan-Jeddah, we hope the Umrah pilgrimage will be more affordable and easier for customers,” Garuda’s senior manager of business development for the Sumatra region, Husein Abdurrrahman, tod the Antara news agency.
The new route will be operated four times a week using a Boeing 747-400 aircraft.
And Husein added that Garuda was planning to open another new pilgrimage route, connecting Jeddah with Indonesia’s second largest city, Surabaya.
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