Friday, December 18, 2009

GARUDA INDONESIA - INDONESIA'S NATIONAL FLAG CARRIER AIRLINES

Because I'm living in Indonesia, let me start talking with my country's national flag carrier first, Garuda Indonesia. :D

Brief description of the airline:
Garuda is a mythical bird that is believed as the steed of Hindu's Wisnu God. This carier was founded in year 1949 and ever be world's best carier in year 90's, serving Asia, Europe, Australia as well as middle east routes. However, due to global economic crisis in year 1998, the carier had to close some routes and lost a lot of money. It was lesser competitive that time with other south east Asian airlines and lost a lot of money until 2006. Starting 2007, this airline has been gaining profit under the lead of current CEO Emirsyah Satar. This airline has really made a great change. They introduced "Garuda Indonesia Experience" on the quantum leap program - Bringing all the best from Indonesia as their best service.With that, it hopes to achieve 5 star rank from Skytrax. In that program also they have announced to purchase 90 B737-800NG, 20 A330-200, and 10 B777-300ER, and thus it will double it's fleet number in year 2014. Garuda also planning to "go public" and flies back to Europe starting June 2010.

Some changes Garuda made:

Their new logo:

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Their new aircrafts featuring new nature's wing livery and IFE system:


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The new flat bed seat on A330-200

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More about Garuda: www.garuda-indonesia.com

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