Ngurah Rai Airport Adds Low-Cost Korean Route

IQPlus, (10/29) - I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport has an additional low-cost airline serving the South Korean route via Incheon-Bali-Incheon.

I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport General Manager Ahmad Syaugi Shahab in Denpasar, Monday, said the airline is the foreign airline Jeju Air which landed for the first time on Sunday (10/27) night.

"Jeju Air as the first and largest airline in South Korea to serve low-cost flights, this is very appropriate because the South Korean tourist market after the pandemic who came to Bali entered the top 10 highest foreign tourists," he said.

With ticket prices ranging from IDR 2 million, this airline will routinely fly directly from and to the ginseng country without transit.

Syaughi assessed that the South Korean airline's decision to operate at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport was right because the interest in foreign tourists from that country was high.

Based on immigration data, the total arrival of South Korean passport-holding foreign tourists through this airport in South Bali in 2023 was 236,030 people or in seventh position.

This year, until the third quarter, the total number of South Korean foreigners served by I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Bali rose two ranks to the fifth highest position with 220,033 people.

In more detail, the number of South Korean foreigners arriving through I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Bali during 2024 in the first quarter was 64.7 thousand people, the second quarter 66 thousand people and the highest in the third quarter was 89 thousand people. (end/ant)