Strategy: Sorong will just be a transit location. Note that 13,000.00 IDR = 0.996752 USD.

Airfare: Route maps for Garuda, Lion Air and Sriwijaya Air show routes into and out of Sorong. on Sunday, Oct 1, 2016 I’m looking at booking a flight at Traveloka to see what the current fare for tomorrow’s flight would be. What I’m trying to find out is whether the flights that will take me from Bali to Makassar to Ambon to Sorong to Yogyakarta are hard to book at the last minute. Inititally, I check the next day’s flight from Sorong to Yogyakarta. There were 21 flights available on five airlines - Garuda, Lion Air, Sriwijaya Air, Batik Air and Wings Air. Many of the flights involved more than one airline. Prices ranged from about $150 to $350. There were no direct flights. The number of stops ranged from one to three. Next I looked at booking one week away from the current date and found that there were 52 total flights. That’s because may of them were of code shares or they used a variety of airlines to form different combinations of changes for transit times from layover stops. Transit times ranged from 5:30 hours to 32 hours. Prices ranged from $144 up. Going over 30 days out got about the same results as going one week out. The prices were actually a bit higher. The best route was using Sriwijaya and changing to Garuda at Makassar. This route took 13 hours and cost $144. The 5.5 hour flight cost $203 and went through Makassar using Garuda only. This caused me to wonder of I could get  a flight from Bali to Ambon, picking up Makassar on the return this completing my trifecata of the “countries” of  Sulawesi, Moluka and Papua (Irian Jaya) . I could and it would cost $70 and I would not have to stay overnight. I could also go from I could also go from Bali to Makassar to Ambon to Sorong in 15.5 hours for $150 on Lion Air, Wings and Garuda. Note there are lots of options and it appears that they get cheaper to closer they get to the actual travel date. Cheapest time appeared to be about a week out. It appears that the booking website Traveloka may be my Indonesian airfare salvation.