Garuda to begin Sydney and Melbourne Jakarta Flights

[Stefan Perkas]

Afternoon all,

Passengers from Sydney and Melbourne will soon be ableto fly to Jakarta with Garuda Indonesia. The airline’s Denpasar-Sydney services will fly Denpasar-Sydney-Jakarta from May 1. Two of Garuda’s weekly flights from Melbourne to Denpasar will also extend to Jakarta from May 4. The airline already operates services from Perth to Jakarta.

Sorce: Travel Weekly

[Arthur T]

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


Which type of Aircraft are they using? B738?

[J Brown]

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

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

[Jarden S]

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

[Steve Crook]

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.

[Michael Morrison]

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

[lloyd fox]

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

Source E BLACKBOARD

Garuda Indonesia announced earlier this week that it would expand its Australian network following the delivery of its four new Airbus 330-220 aircraft.

New three-weekly Jakarta services to Sydney and Melbourne will commence from 1 August 2009.

Subsequently, Garuda will offer a daily service between Indonesia and Sydney, Melbourne, and a double daily service from Perth to Bali and four-weekly direct flights to Jakarta.

The new flights are a part of Garuda’s policy to introduce more non-stop flights to Indonesia according to Poerwoko Soeparyono, Senior General Manager Australia & Southwest Pacific.

He added that it will give Australian passengers easier access to Bali.
“We are also hoping that the new service will encourage Australian holiday makers to venture a bit further than Bali and explore some of the other amazing destinations that Indonesia has to offer”

Garuda plan to operate the A330-200'S on wed,fri sun to SYD from early august and Mon thur sat to MEL.

Cheers Lloyd

[Peter Agatsiotis]

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.

[Stefan Perkas]

Evening all,

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

Jakarta - Perth 3 weekly nonstop service will be cancelled from 01JUN09, replaced by 1-stop via Denpasar (Denpasar - Perth remains at 3 Daily)

GA724 CGK0730 - 1015DPS1100 - 1435PER 738 D
GA725 PER1640 - 2020DPS2100 - 2145CGK 738 D

Jakarta - Melbourne 3 weekly eff 01AUG09
GA716 CGK2215 - 0725+1MEL 332 357
GA717 MEL0955 - 1425CGK 332 146

Existing Denpasar - Melbourne service will be reduced from 5 to 4 weekly from 01AUG09

Jakarta - Sydney 3 weekly eff 01AUG09
GA712 CGK2145 - 0725+1SYD 332 246
GA713 SYD1000 - 1445CGK 332 357

Existing Denpasar - Sydney service will be reduced from 5 to 4 weekly from 01AUG09

[Matt D]

Garuda's poor safety standards keep it on the EU banned list, restricting it from flying anywhere in the European Union. http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air-ban/list_en.htm Australia is their only destination outside Asia