KUALA LUMPUR: TransNusa becomes the first airline to offer Malaysians the option to fly to Jakarta from the newly-redeveloped Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, popularly known as Subang Airport.
In a statement today, group chief executive officer Datuk Bernard Francis said the Jakarta-Subang flight provides option to potential passengers in Malaysia to fly from Subang Airport to Jakarta, besides the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).
Francis said TransNusa's flight 8B 699 will be operating daily scheduled flight from Terminal 3, Soekarno-Hatta International Airport to Subang Airport at 4:10pm while flight 8B 698 will depart Subang Airport at 07:30pm.
TransNusa will be using its A320 narrow-body airliner, which has 174 seats, to cater for the two-hour scheduled flight and 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 Bharu.
"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," he said.
Meanwhile, Tourism Malaysia director general Manoharan Periasamy said the airline has grown and made a valuable contribution to the tourism industry in Malaysia since its relaunch in 2022 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 added.
TransNusa, which had to close it 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 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.
Francis said when Transnusa relaunched, they started from the bottom again without aircraft or roadmap to follow, leading it to recreated and customised the business operations and strategy model based on the post-pandemic scenario.