Today marked the first day of operations for Garuda Indonesia’s low cost subsidiary to Perth. This flight becomes the 9th daily flight between the Western Australia capital and the holiday island of Bali/Denpasar.

The inaugural flight was operated by an Airbus A320-251neo, PK-GTI. The aircraft was 1.3 years old and is configured in a 1-class configuration with 180 Economy seats. Citilink has 51 Airbus A320’s in their fleet, 9 of which are A320neos.

The inaugural flight departed Denpasar International Airport (DPS/WADD) at 01:25AM (WITA) from runway 27. Flight time for the inaugural QG542 was 03:21. The flight touched down on runway 03 at Perth International Airport (PER/YPPH) at 04:46AM (AWST).

The reciprocal flight QG543, left from gate 55 at Perth just before 10AM. The A320neo then departed off of runway 06 to Bali.

Citilink operate to Perth daily from Bali, arriving at 04:50 and departing at 09:50 with a mix of Airbus A320ceo and A320neo aircraft.

*photos from perth_spotter, screenshots from various sources