Soekarno
Hatta International Airport is the main airport serving the greater Jakarta
area on the island of Java, Indonesia. The airport is named after the first
President of Indonesia, Soekarno, and the first vice-president, Mohammad Hatta.
Soekarno Hatta International Airport is often called Cengkareng by Indonesian.
It is IATA code, CGK is originated from the word Cengkareng, a subdistrict
located to the northwest of the city. Soekarno
Hatta International Airport has 150 check in counters, 30 baggage carousels and
42 gates. Each sub-terminal has 25 check-in counters, 5 baggage carrousels and
7 gates.
The
Soekarno Hatta international airport is the hub of Indonesia's huge aviation
network and hosts a numbers of international and domestic airlines including
Indonesia's own Garuda Indonesia, Cathay Pacific, China Airlines, EVA Air, Japan
Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Royal Brunei, and Thai
International, KLM and Lufthansa.
Other
domestic airlines flying from and to Indonesia's capital city include Lion Air,
Mandala Airlines, Merpati Nusantara, Sriwijaya Air, and Indonesia Air Asia and
other Low Cost Carriers (LCCs).
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