INDUSTRY.co.id - Kuta - Bali Provincial Government expects Garuda Indonesia airline to serve London, UK route to Perth, Australia with transit in Denpasar if direct flight of Jakarta-London is considered less profitable.

"My hope before going to Perth is transit in Bali so many people get off here (Ngurah Rai Airport) .The hope that it can be realized," said Head of Bali Provincial Tourism Office Anak Agung Yuniarta Putra at Ngurah Rai Airport, Kuta, Badung regency, 24/5/2018)

He is optimistic if the stopover in Bali, then helped boost tourist arrivals, especially from the UK including boost passenger filling in the airline plate that red.

Moreover, he added, representatives from the United Kingdom who made the ambassador of the country is also expecting a flight route connecting London and Bali.

Based on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) of Bali Province during the year 2017, tourists from the UK occupied the fifth position with the number of tourists coming to the island reached 243,827 people or up 10 percent when compared to 2016.

While the period of January-February 2018 British tourists to Bali reached nearly 30,500 people or up 7.4 percent compared to the same period the previous year.

As well as Australian tourists during the year 2017 occupies the second position in Bali reached nearly 1.1 million and two months early 2018 reached 157 thousand people.

In the meantime, while meeting the Mumbai-India prime flight to the Island of Gods by Garuda Indonesia, Minister Arief Yahya said Britain is one of the main markets in Europe with potential to reach about 350 thousand people or grow to 20 percent.

For that he expects the national carrier to continue to serve flights to London by considering the route of Bali through a transit that is not too long.

"If Bali is high, it should only be considered, London-Jakarta (takes) 15 hours, can not be added for example two hours? To Bali made transit less than one hour," he said.

Previously met on the same occasion President Director of Garuda Indonesia Pahala N Mansury said that it will reconsider the market potential of long-distance route Jakarta-London.

"Maybe we'll see the stock up until later, in the next couple of months we will 'review' our readiness rather than whether we need to make changes to those needs," he said.