"Seeing an increase in tourists visiting from abroad and potential domestic tourists to and from the city of Bandung, Bandung Citilink saw the opening of the route - Denpasar as a strategic move. Lot of foreign tourists who had arrived in London and would like to continue holiday to Bali. Through this route , Citilink trying to explore a larger market in providing air transport services for tourists and business people from and to the city of Bandung, with a very affordable cost and can provide a good flight comfort, "said Arif Wibowo, CEO of PT. Citilink Indonesia, Saturday (06/10/2012) in an email.
Bandung city is famous as a tourist destination by the national and international travelers. Bandung City Government puts the services sector as a major factor in the development of the competitiveness of the city until the city was named as creative as East Asia in March 2012.
According to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) recorded Jabar least 15,417 travelers coming through Bandung airport during June 2012. This figure jumped 22.39 percent compared to the position in May 2012 reached 12.597 people. The jump in the visit, according to CBS, not in spite of the increasing number of direct flights to Dublin route, from both Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Malaysia, and Singapore.
BPS data recorded, Malaysian tourists who come to London in June 2012 reached 10,852 tourists, followed by Singapore 2106 people. Citilink has now been serving 85 daily frequencies to many important and interesting cities in Indonesia. Citilink future will continue to open new routes in various cities in Indonesia.
"Our target until the end of 2012, operating frequency of 137 flights per day. Citilink It is a commitment to improve customer service to the people of Indonesia," said Arif Wibowo.
As evidence of the success of Citilink in its commitment to improve service to customers, Citilink has won several awards, among others by Indonesia Travel and Tourism Foundation for the category of Leading Low Cost Airline 2011/2012, the categories of Best Overall Marketing Campaign at The Budgies and Travel Awards 2012 and the newest is awards Service To Care Award 2012 for the category of Markplus Insight Airlines.