Indonesian start-up Efata Papua Airlines has launched operations using a Boeing 727-200Adv wet-leased from Serbian airline Aviogenex. Services began on 3 March on the domestic Jakarta-Surabaya-Biak-Jayapura-Merauke route. The airline has taken the aircraft on a one-year wet lease with a two-year extension option.
Efata's president director Capt Ferry Faubin says that discussions have already been held with Aircraft Financing & Trading and Debis AirFinance about acquiring a Fokker 100 "for feeder services in Papua and to establish services to East Timor and Darwin".
Source: Flight International
