Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) leads the resumption of scheduled narrowbody operations at Bandung, with the restoration of B737-800 flights to Denpasar on August 14, 2026, nearly three years after scheduled jet services were transferred from the airport to Majalengka Kertajati International.
Indonesia’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said Garuda Indonesia had started operating the route 4x weekly with Boeing jets. Low-cost carriers Citilink (QG, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) and Super Air Jet (IU, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) are also introducing A320 services as part of a broader return of scheduled jet operations to Bandung.
ch-aviation schedules data shows Citilink began daily A320 services from Bandung to Denpasar, Medan Kuala Namu, and Surabaya on August 17, followed by daily flights to Balikpapan and Palembang from August 18.
Super Air Jet services were not yet reflected in schedules data reviewed by ch-aviation. However, the DGCA said the carrier was due to begin Bandung operations from August 17 and was to link the city with Denpasar, Medan, Makassar, Batam, Pekanbaru, Pontianak, and Padang. Reservations for the announced services were not yet available at the time of writing.
Bandung remained open to scheduled commercial traffic, while narrowbody services were absent. Wings Air (Indonesia) (IW, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) operated ATR – Avions de Transport Régional services to Bandar Lampung and Palembang in August, while Susi Air (SQS, Jakarta Halim) continues to operate Cessna (single turboprop) services to Cijulang and Jakarta Halim, according to ch-aviation schedules data.
The DGCA said in October 2023 that scheduled jet operations at Bandung would end on October 28, with most services transferred to Kertajati from the following day. Citilink, Indonesia AirAsia, Super Air Jet, Lion Air, and Batik Air were among the operators affected.
The latest return of jets is another shift in the government’s long-running division of traffic between Bandung and Kertajati. Domestic jet operations were transferred to Kertajati in 2019, when the government cited Bandung’s constrained infrastructure and sought to build traffic at the then-new airport.
That requirement was reversed in August 2020 after inadequate ground transport links to Kertajati hindered traffic development. Garuda Indonesia and Citilink had stopped serving the Bandung market following the relocation, citing weak passenger demand at Kertajati. Scheduled jets were subsequently allowed back at Bandung before being transferred again in October 2023.
With the re-transfer of domestic jet flights to Bandung, Scoot (TR, Singapore Changi) will become the sole carrier to have scheduled services to Kertajati, operating a 2x weekly E190-E2 service to Singapore Changi. The airport will, however, become one of the staging points for Garuda Indonesia’s Umrah pilgrimage charters to Jeddah International in September and October.