Merpati Nusantara Airlines

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Merpati Nusantara Airlines is an airline based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is a major domestic airline operating scheduled services in Indonesia, as well as to East Timor and Malaysia. Its main base is Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta ^[1]. It has a Maintenance Facility based at Juanda International Airport, Surabaya. It is a Government controlled company and is a part of Garuda Indonesia Group, but now is a separate entity.^{[citation needed]}

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Fleet
4 Destinations
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Code Data

IATA Code: MZ
ICAO Code: MNA
Callsign: MERPATI ^[2]

[edit] History

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 previously operated by KLM subsidiary, De Kroonduif, which had been flown by Garuda since 1962. In 1978, the airline was taken over by Garuda, but continued to operate under its own name. Merpati was integrated into the Garuda Indonesia Group in September 1989, but was granted government permission to separate in 1993, although the split did not actually take place until April 1997 ^[1].

[edit] Fleet

The Merpati fleet includes the following aircraft (at August 2006) ^[3] :

2 BAe 748 Series 2A
12 Boeing 737-200
3 Boeing 737-300
3 Fokker 100
23 Fokker F28 Mk4000
6 Fokker F27 Mk500
5 Fokker F27 Mk500F
13 Indonesian Aerospace CN-235-100
9 Indonesian Aerospace 212-200
8 De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter

In June 2006,it placed an order for 15 Xian MA60, a 60 seat Chinese built aircraft. The first aircraft is scheduled to be delivered in November 2006 and all are to be received by the end of 2007. The MA60s are to replace fleet of Indonesian Aerospace CN-235s and Fokker 27s.^{[citation needed]}