Monday, July 13, 2009

GARUDA DI PERTH TAK TERPENGARUH PANDEMI FLU BABI

Pandemi Influenza A H1N1 yang telah menjangkiti sedikitnya 9.050 orang di Australia, termasuk 465 orang di negara bagian Australia Barat, tidak mempengaruhi kinerja Garuda Indonesia di Perth yang melayani rute penerbangan langsung ke Denpasar tiga kali sehari, kata pejabat Garuda.

"Sejauh ini oke. Flu babi tidak membawa masalah bagi Garuda. Sampai hari ini (Senin) kita masih normal-normal saja," kata Pejabat Sementara Manajer Umum Garuda di Australia Barat dan Northern Territory (NT), Syahrul Tahir, mengatakan kepada ANTARA yang menghubunginya dari Brisbane, Senin.

Dalam beberapa bulan terakhir, "load factor" (tingkat isian penumpang-red.) Garuda yang melayani penerbangan langsung Perth-Denpasar sebanyak tiga kali sehari atau 21 kali seminggu juga relatif baik, katanya.

"Artinya 'load factor' kita masih oke. Bali tetap menjadi pavorit banyak warga Australia," kata Syahrul.

Pasar Australia Barat dilayani Garuda dengan pesawat Boeing 737-800 dengan kapasitas 12 kursi kelas bisnis dan 142 kursi kelas ekonomi, katanya.

Berkaitan dengan ancaman pandemi Influenza A H1N1 (flu babi) di Australia, data terbaru Departemen Kesehatan Pemerintah Federal menunjukkan jumlah penderita positif flu itu hingga Senin malam sudah mencapai sedikitnya 9.050 orang atau naik 713 orang dalam 24 jam terakhir.

Para penderita tersebar di delapan negara bagian, yakni Queensland 2.263 orang, Victoria (2.131), New South Wales (2.029), Australia Selatan (1.038), Northern Territory (639), Australia Barat (465), Australian Capital Territory (336), dan Tasmania (149).

Jumlah warga Australia yang meninggal karena flu ini tercatat 19 orang. Sebanyak 11 orang di antaranya berada di negara bagian Victoria, empat orang di New South Wales, dan masing-masing satu orang di negara bagian Australia Barat, Australia Selatan, Northern Territory dan Tasmania.

Selain Perth, Australia Barat, dua kota utama Australia lainnya yang diterbangi Garuda Indonesia adalah Sydney dan Melbourne.

*) My news for ANTARA on July 13, 2009

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Hi, I am a journalist of ANTARA, Indonesia's national news agency whose headquarters is in Jakarta. My fate has brought me back to Australia since March 2007 because my office assigns me to be the ANTARA correspondent there. My first visit to the neighboring country was in 2004 when I did my masters at the School of Journalism and Communication, the University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, under the Australian Development Scholarship (ADS) scheme. However, the phase of my life was started from a small town in North Sumatra Province, called Pangkalan Brandan. In that coastal town, I was born and grown up. Having completed my senior high school there in 1987, I moved to Medan to pursue my study at the University of North Sumatra (USU) and obtained my Sarjana (BA) degree in English literature in 1992. My Master of Journalism (MJ) was completed at UQ in July 2005. The final research project report for my MJ degree was entitled "Framing the Australian Embassy Bombing (Jakarta) in Indonesian and Australian Newspapers". Further details about me can be read in a writing posted in my blog entitled "My Life Journey".

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