Garuda aims to cancel remaining ATR 72-600 order

Garuda Indonesia SVP corporate strategy Albert Burhan, speaking to CAPA on the sidelines of the IATA AGM and World Air Transport Summit, stated (04-Jun-2018) Garuda is talking to ATR about cancelling its remaining ATR 72-600 orders. While the negotiations to cancel the remaining order are continuing there will be no additional deliveries. Mr Burhan said Garuda plans to keep its 16 existing ATR 72s and has been working to improve utilisation. Garuda increased utilisation over the last year from an average of five hours per day to six and aims to reach seven hours by the end of 2018. Garuda operates 16 ATR 72-600s with nine more on order, according to the CAPA Fleet Database.