Garuda’s Citilink Airbus A320 Flights Started Sept. 16

PT Garuda Indonesia’s low-cost carrier, PT Citilink Indonesia, deployed Airbus SAS A320 planes on commercial flights beginning Sept. 16, Doni Rizal, acting senior manager of marketing at Citilink, said today via phone in Jakarta.

Citilink will introduce four additional A320 planes into service between October 2011 and February 2012, the company said in a press release distributed to Bloomberg News. Citilink currently uses Boeing 737 planes to fly to eight cities in Indonesia, according to the release.

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