Originally Posted by
Sixth Freedom
CTU has 14 million + people whilst JKT has only 9 million + people (source: wikipedia
). That might be part of it.
Tack on the Croydon-esque (geographically!) suburbs of Sukabumi, Tangerang, Bekasi, Sukabumi you're hitting 15 million. When you've taken into account that Surabaya is the only other decent international airport on Java (well, 1 x daily CX flight and token SQ/MH service) then you've got 140 million people relying on Jakarta
But fair comment, I had no idea that Chengdu was so popular, so I should re-phrase.
I'm still struggling to see why LBA is a BA destination in comparison
I've flown a lot to Jakarta, used to predominantly be on one of the 4 weekly EK flights (via CMB and either SIN or KUL!) - which now has 3 daily sardine cans (their 77W's). The amount of capacity into CGK these days (3 daily QR flights, 2 x EY, MH, SQ - which deems CGK a necessary F destination) is scary. If KL,LH,AF and TK can all do it as a one stop service, BA non-stop would be a go-er from many European destinations as well.