Cardig Air

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Cardig Air
Cardig Air logo.png
IATA ICAO Callsign
8FCADCARDIG AIR
Founded2004
AOC # 121-059
Hubs Soekarno-Hatta International Airport
Focus cities Jakarta
Fleet size2
Destinations10
Headquarters Jakarta, Indonesia
Key peopleSimon Kennedy Nasution (CEO)
Employees50
Website https://en.casgroup.co.id/

Cardig Air is a cargo airline with its head office and home base at Jakarta, Indonesia. It operates scheduled all-cargo services across Asia and Indonesia as well as charter services to various domestic and regional destinations.

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Cardig Air owns and operates two Boeing 737 Classic aircraft which had been converted to freighters. Up until 2018 Cardig Air operated scheduled international flights connecting Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, and Shenzhen, as well as scheduled domestic flights connecting Jayapura and Wamena. In 2020, following takeover by a new group of investors spearheaded by Mr. Dian Nasution, the airline aims to focus primarily on domestic routes.

History

Cardig Air was established in April 2004. In July 2008, a group of investors injected new capital and acquired majority stake in Cardig Air from PT Cardig International. The new management replaced the company's Boeing 737-200Cs with higher-capacity and more fuel-efficient Boeing 737-300Fs.

In 2008, Cardig Air leased its first two 737-300Fs, which arrived in Jakarta that October; and full operations started in January 2009, serving customers on both a scheduled and charter basis. In 2012, Cardig Air added another Boeing 737-300F to its fleet.

In 2016, Cardig Air launched a China – Vietnam - Indonesia route and became the first Indonesian cargo airline that operates scheduled flights between the three countries.

In 2019, the airline was purchased by a new group of investors and the restructuring of the company is currently underway to refocus on domestic routes.

In 2020, the airline received two Boeing 737 Classic Freighters to serve domestic cargo routes.

Destinations

Cardig Air operates scheduled and charter freighter services, providing transportation linkages in Indonesia. Scheduled destinations include:

Indonesia

Fleet

Current fleet

Cardig Air Boeing 737-300F on approach to land at Singapore's Changi airport Cardig Air Boeing 737-300 Spijkers.jpg
Cardig Air Boeing 737-300F on approach to land at Singapore's Changi airport

The Cardig Air fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of March 2022): [1]

Cardig Air Fleet
AircraftIn Service
Boeing 737-300F 1
PK-BBY Boeing 737-3Q8(SF) (cn 23535 1301) Cardig Air. (8564366988).jpg

Former fleet

The airline previously operated the following aircraft (as of March 2022):

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References

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