ATR has identified 209 domestic routes in Indonesia that it считает economically viable for regional turboprops, with combined annual demand of about 16 million passengers. The study highlights a sizeable opportunity outside Java, where most of the routes are concentrated, and points to an existing airport network that could support new services without major infrastructure buildout.
The analysis found that 70 of Indonesia’s 180 paved-runway airports currently have no scheduled passenger service. ATR’s MobilityMonitor platform used travel patterns from a sample of 35 million residents to map demand, with 88% of the potential routes classified as intra-island links and roughly 14 million passengers a year tied to those sectors. The strongest prospects were identified in Sumatra and Sulawesi, while about 90% of the routes were located outside Java.
ATR’s Alexis Vidal framed the findings as evidence that regional turboprops can open short- and medium-haul domestic connectivity across Indonesia’s fragmented archipelago. Around 90% of the journeys in the dataset fell within 100 to 800 kilometres, a range the manufacturer considers suitable for turboprop operations.