TransNusa Becomes Only Foreign Airline to Offer Malaysians Scheduled Subang – Jakarta Flight

• PT TransNusa Aviation Mandiri has becomes the first foreign airline to offer the attractive Subang-Jakarta route to Malaysia
• TranNusa successfully launched its scheduled maiden Jakarta – Subang flight today

Jakarta, August 1, 2024: Travelling between Jakarta and Malaysia will now become shorter with the travel duration for those who are planning their trip either for business or leisure with TransNusa

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 potential passengers in Malaysia to opt to fly from Subang Airport to Jakarta, instead of traveling to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA).

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 ticket for this route is competitively priced from IDR 999,000.

Jakarta-based TransNusa was chosen by the Malaysian Aviation Commission to become one of the two foreign airlines to fly from the historical Subang International Airport. The Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport, popularly known as Subang Airport served as Malaysia’s international airport from 1965 to 1998, after which the operations were transferred to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). However, KLIA was not as convenient as Subang Airport. As such, since early 2000, airlines have been requesting for approval to utilise the Subang Airport to cater for scheduled domestic and Asean flights.

Last month, the Malaysian Aviation Commission had approved only six airlines to fly from Subang Airport, four Malaysian-owned airlines and two foreign airlines, one of which is TransNusa.

On whether there will be any changes to TransNusa’s scheduled flights from Jakarta to KLIA, Francis said that TransNusa would still continue to operate three scheduled daily flights to KLIA and four scheduled flights weekly to Johor Bharu.

“As a Premium Service Carrier, our main priority is our passengers’ comfort, safety and experience. As such, we will continuously strive to provide passengers with new creative routes to accommodate their need to save time, to have a comfortable experience and to have peace of mind while travelling,” Francis said, adding that since TransNusa’s re-introduction 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.

"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," stated Mr. Manoharan Periasamy, Director General of Tourism Malaysia.

"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 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 Datuk Bernard Francis in October 2022.

Within 6 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 flight 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 heading 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.

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About TransNusa

TransNusa Airline, is a Premium Service Carrier. After the take-over, in February 2024, the airline rebranded itself from being a Low-Cost Carrier to a Premium Service Carrier in line with its upgraded aircrafts that offers better comfort as well as based on the flexibility and quality of the services offered.

TransNusa, which received its AOC certification on 9^th September 2022, launch its first three A320 operations on 6^th October, 14^th October and 12^th December, 2022. The airline, which became the first outside of China to utilise Comac, received its first ARJ21 on 22^nd December, 2022. In 2023, TransNusa introduced a new business model making it the first Premium Service Carrier in the Asia Pacific region. TransNusa introduced its first international flight on 14^th April, 2023. The airline is currently based in Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.

The airline currently flies to Yogyakarta and Bali. On the international front, TransNusa flies to Singapore, Guangzhou, Kuala Lumpur and Johor. The airline became the second Indonesian airline to fly to China and the first Indonesian airline to launch a Premium Service Carrier business model.

Passengers can book their flights on the TransNusa website (www.transnusa.co.id), through authorized travel agents in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, or by contacting the airline's customer service centre at, +62216310888. For the Singaporean market, passengers can contact TransNusa’s General Sales Agent, Chariot Travels Pte Ltd, at +65 86602719 while for the Malaysian market, passengers can contact MKM Ticketing Travel & Tours Sdn Bhd at +60378312581.