What is Garuda Indonesia?
Garuda Indonesia is an airline company that operates a no. of domestic and international flights in more than 100 countries worldwide including India, United States, China, Korea, Japan, United Arab Emirates, New Zealand, Thailand, Belgium, Indonesia, Italy, Germany, Australia and Malaysia. The company's major shareholder is Government of the Republic of Indonesia. The company is listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange. According to the report, the airline offers services to approximately 17 million passengers in the year 2011. The company's corporate head office is located in Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Cengkareng, Indonesia. The airline's major and secondary hubs are Juanda International Airport, Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport, Kuala Namu International Airport and Ngurah Rai International Airport.
Garuda Indonesia History
The airline was founded in the year 1947 as
KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf. The company commenced its operations under the name
Garuda Indonesian Airways with Douglas DC-3 aircraft on 6th January, 1949. Since the year 1953, the company's fleet
Size was around 50, but now it has around 145 aircraft that include
Bombardier CRJ1000, Boeing 777-300ER, Boeing 737 MAX 8, Boeing 737-500, ATR 72–600, Airbus A330-300, etc. Garuda Indonesia is among the
Skyteam alliance that consists of around 20 members including Vietnam Airlines, Air France, Aerolíneas Argentinas, China Eastern Airlines, KLM,
Delta Air Lines and Alitalia. Aerowisata, Citilink and GMF AeroAsia are the subsidiaries of the Garuda Indonesia.
Garuda Indonesia Services
The company has Codeshare agreements with more than 20 airlines worldwide including
Etihad Airways, Singapore Airlines,
Malaysia Airlines Jet Airways Hainan Airlines
All Nippon Airways Royal Brunei Airlines, Etihad Airways, etc. The airlines offers in-flight entertainment services such as Audio-Video-On-Demand equipped with LCD screen that features TV shows, music, movies and games. The airline provides Wi-Fi connectivity, magazines for the passengers in first class and Executive class or Business class.
Garuda Indonesia Miles
The company provides GarudaMiles, a frequent flyer program by which passengers earn miles or points that either based on distance traveled on the
Garuda Airline or while availing the service with partnered companies such as banks, hotels, shops, etc. across the world. The different types of membership are Regular, Junior and EC+.