Garuda to begin Sydney and Melbourne Jakarta Flights
 

Afternoon all,

Sorce: Travel Weekly

Hi Arthur, no need to requote the exact message above, thank you - mod


Which type of Aircraft are they using? B738?

MEL/SYD-DPS-CGK is opb A333
PER-CGK is opb 735

The 738's ("or 73H's") do PER-DPS twice each day

They used to do this route in the past SYD-DPS-CGK. Its not a whole new route for Garuda its just a reinstated flight. Be nice if they did a few non-stop SYD-CGK

Waaaaay back in 1980 I flew from Sydney to Jakarta with Garuda via Denpasar on one of their DC-10s -GIB (sorry, I can't remember the Indonesian prefix just at the moment). I remember that just after the plane took off from Denpasar on the Jakarta leg I got my first whiff of clove cigarettes as passengers had restocked during the stopover.... of course this was in the days when smoking was allowed on planes. I still LOVE that smell!! I also remember that the Denpasar-Jakarta leg was quite light on for passengers and those of us in the back cabin were moved into the middle one "for weight balance reasons". I took that as being code for "the flight attendants couldn't be bothered pushing those trollies all the way back there just for a few passengers". I could be wrong.

Not sure I'd be jumping on the chance to fly Garuda....

Seems they have a series of mistakes... here is the latest

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news...e/1481473.aspx

For many Foreigners, GA may not have the best record. But in Indonesia, Garuda is absolutely the premium carrier to fly with.

I hope they bring back their B747-400 in July for Bali peak season.


Steve, I've also flown GA PK-GIB/GID several times at the back seat , last row number was row 37 from memory. They had 2 flights leaving 10 mins apart each other, I tried to standby on the first flight (was a B737) and got disappointed and the second flight, to my surprise operated by a DC10 from CGK-Bali, with 11 pax onboard ! Awesome Crime Performunz ;)

Sam

Garuda 332'S to SYD,MEL
 

New planes prompt Garuda to expand Aussie routes
Thursday, 21 May 2009

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Cheers Lloyd

Just noted on Skyliner news:

PK-GPJ A330-243 (988) arrived Jakarta 19 May in full Hainan c/s. Hainan cancelled this delivery.

Does this mean all 4 are/were cancelled orders as I don't remember seeing the initial Garuda order? Checking AL looks like these may have been an ILFC order.

Evening all,

Here are the schedules for these new flights obtained from Airline Route updates.