Merpati Nusantara Airlines
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| Founded | 6 September 1962 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 5 February 2014 | ||||||
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Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Ngurah Rai International Airport Juanda International Airport |
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| Frequent-flyer program | Merpati EasyFlyer | ||||||
| Fleet size | 39 | ||||||
| Destinations | 84 | ||||||
| Company slogan | The Air Bridge of Indonesia | ||||||
| Headquarters | Central Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia | ||||||
| Key people | Capt. Asep Ekanugraha - CEO | ||||||
| Website | www.merpati.co.id | ||||||
PT Merpati Nusantara Airlines, operating as Merpati Nusantara Airlines, was an airline in Indonesia based in Central Jakarta, Jakarta. It was a major domestic airline operating scheduled services to more than 25 destinations in Indonesia, as well as scheduled international services to East Timor and Malaysia. Its main base was Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta. The word merpati is Indonesian for "dove", and Nusantara is a Javanese word found in the Pararaton ("the Book of Kings", probably written in the 16th century) and meaning "the outer islands" and now referring to the Indonesian archipelago. Merpati is also listed in category 1 by Indonesian Civil Aviation Authority for airline safety quality and plans to get IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) from International Air Transport Association. It had a maintenance facility based at Juanda International Airport, Surabaya as well as a simulator facility at the Merpati Training Centre in Surabaya which housed a Fokker F-27, AVIC MA60 and CN-235 full motion simulators.
All services were suspended in 2014 due to cashflow problems, but relaunch in 2017 has become a possibility following restructuring and cash injection.
The airline was established and started operations on 6 September 1962. It was set up by the Indonesian government as the second state airline, with the main objective of taking over the network of domestic services developed by the Air Force since 1958. During 1962, it also took over the routes in West Irian (formerly Dutch New Guinea) previously operated by KLM subsidiary, De Kroonduif, which had been flown by Garuda since 1962.
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