FLIGHT POSSIBILITIES for Leg 4, Yogyakarta to Phuket
This is an exemplary case study of the complexity of air travel options in a dense corridor like Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. The situation is fairly common, a range of flights from point A to point B (Yogyakarta to Jakarta in this case), others from point B to points C, D and E (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok), then a final set of flights from points C, D and E to point F, the destination of Phuket. It could have been more complicated if I added Penang as an intermediate point, but I decided to keep it "simple" and not do that.
There are different ways of presenting this information, but I decided that the most efficient was to used the intermediate points as the name for the routes representing different combinations of flights. That gives me Bangkok 1 to 3, Kuala Lumpur 1 to 8 and Singapore 1 to 4. So that means that all routes start with YOG to CGK, B routes go CGK to BKK and then BKK to HKT, C routes go CGK to KUL, then KUL to HKT and D routes go CGK to SIN and then SIN HKT. Here is my spreadsheet of this information (please note that there are many flights at in-between times left out, as they are quite numerous; what I show is that last flight that can make a 50 minute connection; also for the few that are publically available the actual flight times for June 24, 2011 were used):
B Routes YOG CGK CGK BKK BKK HKT
JT561 0700 0800 GA866 0945 1310 FD3029 1440 1600
GA205 0940 1045 TG434 1238 1614 PG277 1710 1833
JT559 1140 1240 GA868 1250 1615 TG221 1819 1945
C Routes YOG CGK CGK KUL KUL HKT
GA201 0600 0700 AK381 0835 1130 AK826 1240 1300
JT561 0700 0800 GA820 0850 1150 AK826 1240 1300
GA203 0800 0900 MH710 1110 1422 QR624 1523 1550
QZ7343 0825 0925 QZ7692 1130 1430 QR624 1523 1550
GA205 0940 1045 JT282 1230 1530 AK828 2040 2105
JT559 1140 1240 QZ7694 1400 1700 AK828 2040 2105
QZ7341 1245 1345 AK385 1450 1750 AK828 2040 2105
JT563 2000 2100 MH720 1620 1941 AK828 2040 2105
D Routes YOG CGK CGK SIN SIN HKT
GA201 0600 0705 JT150 0825 1105 FD3525 1315 1400
JT561 0700 0800 GA824 0855 1130 FD3525 1315 1400
JT561 0700 0800 SQ953 0921 1202 FD3525 1315 1400
GA203 0800 0905 QZ9492 0950 1247 SQ5054 1320 1410
JT553 0920 1020 SQ957 1120 1400 MI756 1632 1710
JT553 0920 1020 GA826 1120 1406 MI756 1632 1710
QZ7341 1245 1345 GA830 1455 1759 3K537 2105 2125
QZ7341 1245 1345 VF204 1505 1812 3K537 2015 2125