A Blackberry app for GoIndonesia

GoIndonesia, an online hotel reservation website, can now be accessed by BlackBerry smartphone users through its newly launched app. It provides customers with the same easy access to search, book and pay for hotel reservations, in your hands.

The app is available in Indonesian and English to serve both domestic and foreign customers. It provides the full functionality and same features as GoIndonesia’s website, with “real time reservations” and instant confirmations sent direct by email and to the customer’s BlackBerry.

Diverse payment options are also available through the app. Customers can pay either with a MasterCard or Visa credit card, internet banking such as KlikBCA and Mandiri Clickpay, or through an ATM from the BCA bank.

Yusuf IJsseldijk, managing director & CEO of GoIndonesia, said, “For customers often on the road travelling for either business or pleasure they do not have to worry anymore about when or where to make hotel reservations, as they can now do so on-the-go, through our BlackBerry app, any time any place.”

Growth for APAC airlines in November 2012

Preliminary traffic figures for the month of November 2012 released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) showed further expansion in international passenger traffic and a slight improvement in air cargo demand.

Overall, airlines based in the Asia Pacific region carried a combined total of 17 million international passengers in November, an increase of 8.4% compared to the same month last year, supported by healthy demand on regional routes.

In revenue passenger kilometre (RPK) terms, international passenger traffic grew by 7.9%, whilst available seat capacity expanded by a slower 3.5%, resulting in a 3.1 percentage point increase in the average international passenger load factor to 76.7% for the month.

Andrew Herdman, AAPA director general  (pictured left). said, “Overall, during the first eleven months of the year, Asia Pacific carriers saw a healthy 7.1% increase in international passenger numbers. On the other hand, the air cargo market has had another disappointing year, with international freight traffic down a cumulative 3.6% on last year’s levels, reflecting weak demand for Asian exports to the major developed markets, particularly Europe.”

He added Asian carriers have seen some very encouraging growth in passenger demand throughout 2012, but the weak air cargo market held back overall revenue growth.

“On the cost side, high fuel prices kept up the pressure on already thin operating margins. Airlines responded by accelerating the deployment of newer more fuel-efficient aircraft, and carefully managing capacity to match changing demand patterns. Despite uncertainty over the global economic outlook, Asian airlines are continuing to invest for the future, including both fleet development and customer service innovation.”