Flight from Yogyakarta to Majalengka (YIA - KJT)

Information About Flight Route

Flight routes from Yogyakarta to Majalengka provide a lot of convenience and flexibility in terms of transit options for passengers. For this flight route, there are flight options with one and two transit times in three strategic cities, namely Bali, Banjarmasin and Jakarta. Although there are only three transit cities, the one and two transit options and the many choices of departure times make it easy for passengers to choose the option that best suits their travel schedule.

The flight duration from Yogyakarta to Majalengka depends on the number of transit cities passengers choose. If choosing one transit city, the flight duration is available from 6 hours 20 minutes to 27 hours 10 minutes. In contrast, if passengers choose two transit cities, the flight duration ranges from 8 hours 5 minutes to 20 hours 25 minutes. Even so, these various flight duration options give passengers the flexibility to choose the one that best suits their travel preferences and needs.

There are various airlines available for the flight route from Yogyakarta to Majalengka with a wide selection of services and facilities for passengers. From AirAsia Indonesia, Citilink, Lion Air, Super Air Jet, Batik Air, to Garuda Indonesia. Each airline offers a different flight experience. As a passenger, you can choose the airline that best suits your preferences in terms of schedule, price, and comfort.

For ticket prices, April turns out to be the best opportunity, as there are price offers starting from Rp1,321,239. As for the most expensive ticket price, it occurs in January with offers starting from Rp3,192,981. Well, understanding the fluctuating ticket prices and patterns like this actually allows passengers to plan their trips better. This is very common to save on travel costs.

About Aiport in Destination and Arrival City

The flight route from Yogyakarta to Majalengka starts from Yogyakarta International Airport or often known as YIA. Previously, Adisucipto airport was the main airport in Yogyakarta, but now everything is transferred to YIA. YIA Airport is located in Kulon Progo Village, Yogyakarta Special Region 55654.

YIA Airport itself serves domestic and international flights. For domestic routes, YIA airport serves almost all flight routes throughout Indonesia starting from Banjarmasin, Manado, Biak, Lombok, Surabaya, Semarang, Kupang, Ambon, Denpasar, Surakarta, Palembang, Makassar, Balikpapan, Jakarta, Pekanbaru, Batam, Kualanamu, Samarinda, Bandar Lampung, Pontianak, etc. As for international flights, YIA airport serves flight routes to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, to direct routes to Jeddah for Muslim pilgrims who want to perform Umrah.

YIA airport has its own uniqueness, namely having art installations, such as in the airport area which is decorated with lots of artwork, one of which is the Bedhaya Kinjeng Wesi dance by Ichan Noor in the tunggi room. There are even distinctive icons that can be found in the toll gate area to the drop zone. Some of them are Semar Tinandu architecture on the signboard, the Hamemayu Hayuningrat statue, the Gunungan monument, the Bale Kambang building, a replica of Plengkung Gading, to the roof with Kawung batik patterns.

To reach YIA airport, there is no need to bother because YIA airport is connected to public transportation modes. For example, direct access to the YIA Airport train station with the route YIA Station - Wates Station - Tugu Station Yogyakarta PP. The location is on the east side, precisely at the Tugu Malioboro YIA Area Connecting Building. YIA Airport Train tickets can be purchased directly or ordered online via the application. In addition, passengers can also take advantage of the official YIA airport shuttle service from DAMRI, TRANSARBAGITA buses serving to the city of Yogyakarta, ASK (Special Rental Transport Applications) from YIA airport such as Grab, Gojek, and Maxim.

After traveling by air and transiting once or twice in several strategic cities, the passengers arrived at Kertajati airport, Majalengka as the arrival airport. Kertajati Airport, known as West Java International Airport (BIJB), stands on an area of 1800 hectares. Kertajati International Airport has been equipped with a passenger terminal, capable of serving passengers with a capacity of 5.6 million per year, and has a runway with dimensions of 3000 meters x 60 meters, 22 parking stands, and 36 check in counters.

To reach Kertajati airport, there are various choices of mass transportation modes, namely Damri buses, travel, taxis, and micro buses from a number of points in the Greater Bandung area and other areas such as Sumedang, Cirebon, Kuningan, Karawang, Majalengka, Tasikmalaya, Indramayu, Cimahi, Purwakarta, Subang, Ciamis, Banjar, and Pangandaran.

Thus, YIA airport and Kertajati airport are the starting and ending points of the Yogyakarta to Majalengka flight route.

About Arrival City

Majalengka is also called the City of Winds because the wind in this city is always strong and has a special character, even during the rainy season and dry season. In this city there are some of the best tourist destinations such as Telaga Herang, Panyaweuyan Argapura, Curug Leles, Petilasan Prabu Siliwangi, Cadas Gantung Tourism, Paragliding, Goa Lalay, and Cipasung tea plantation.

Majalengka turns out to have an origin. The name of the city comes from two cities in the Cirebon language, namely "maja" and "rare". Not only that, it turns out that this city also has another version of its origin, namely the incident of cutting down the maja tree by Nyi Rambut Kasih.

Rambut Kasih is a queen from the Sindangkasih Kingdom who is said to dislike Cirebon people who are looking for maja fruit for medicine. This is the origin of the name Majalengka. According to this version, when the Cirebon people came to Sindangkasih, they no longer found maja trees. That's why they eventually said "maja-e langka" or "maja fruit is missing".

If you visit Majalengka, you should know that the city is still attached to traditional customs. Starting from Mapag Tamba to start a new planting season after a few weeks of planting, Mapag Sri as a form of gratitude for picking up rice, Earth Alms symbolized by the hoeing procession, and bathing in a sacred well during the month of Mulud. This last tradition is carried out by the community in order to cleanse the soul as well as commemorate the Maulid of the Prophet Muhammad SAW.

This sacred well is also a cultural heritage because it is said that this well was made by a demang named Kertanegara. Initially the Demang ran away from the Dutch until he entered the forest which is now believed to be the location of the Dalem well.

If you want a culinary tour, Majalengka has many culinary delights such as Jalakotek (a snack made from flour and aci similar to pastel but with different fillings (aci & tofu), fried oncom made from fermented donkey dregs with special spices and a sprinkling of fried onions, soy sauce dregs which are usually a side dish because they are made from the remaining sweet soy sauce so that they produce a savory sweet taste, and tutut (rice field snails) which are processed with fresh and savory spicy spices. The delicacy of tutut (keong sawah) lies in the way it is served, boiled, and served with warm rice. For sweets there is gula cakar made from a mixture of sugar and soda in a unique pink square shape, usually as a mixture of tea or coffee drinks.

Majalengka is famous for its unique festival, Kawin Batu. This is a cultural movement that emphasizes the spirit of brotherhood, kinship, by uniting diversity and thought. In addition, there is another festival, the Rampak Genteng Festival, which is a festival of hitting the roof tiles together which becomes a music to show the roof tiles as the identity of the residents. As the city of Wind, the city also holds the Baling-Baling Festival (kolecer) which was once used as a tool to repel birds that eat rice in the rice field area. But now this tradition is held again to advance Majalengka tourism.

Various tours from nature to culinary and festivals in the city of Majalengka make visitors certainly will not run out of interesting things to enjoy and participate in while visiting this city.