Garuda Indonesia Group posts net income of US$9.35m for 2016

National airline Garuda Indonesia and its subsidiaries maintained positive performance throughout 2016 with a net profit of US$9.36m, or the equivalent of IDR 124.5bn (exchange rate IDR 13.300 per US$), while carrying a total of 35 million passengers on both Garuda Indonesia and Citilink Indonesia. Referring to the performance review of the Asia Pacific aviation industry released by the passenger yield of the Asia Pacific aviation industry in the past five years has experienced a significant downward trend, from USC 9.6/km in 2012 to USC 6.2/km in 2016. However, the passenger traffic recorded showed an increasing trend from 511.6 million passengers in 2012 to 632.8 million passengers in 2016.