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Monday, 03 August 2009 11:48:00
Garuda Indonesia Reinstates Direct Flight Jakarta to Sydney, Melbourne and Seoul
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The existing flights to the three cities served from Denpasar

In order to improve its services to costumers and as part of the realization of the development plan of its network, Garuda Indonesia reinstate direct flight from Jakarta to Sydney, Melbourne, and Seoul .

The Direct flight from Jakarta to Sydney will be commencing on Saturday (01/08), while the flight from Jakarta to Melbourne and Jakarta to Seoul will be commencing on Sunday (02/08). The existing flight to these cities, at this time, also served from Denpasar, Garuda Indonesia's second hub.

Jakarta - Sydney route is served every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, with departure schedule from Jakarta (GA 712) at 22:00 local time, arrived in Sydney at 07.25 local time. The flight depart from Sydney (GA 713) at 10.00 local time and arrived in Jakarta at 14.35 local time.

While the route Jakarta - Melbourne served every Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with the departure time from Jakarta (GA 716) at 22:15 local time, arrived in Melbourne at 07:25 local time. The aircraft flying back from Melbourne (GA 717) on the same day at 09:55 local time, and arrived in Jakarta at 14.00 local time.

The route Jakarta - Seoul will be served every Tuesday, Friday, Sunday with departure time from Jakarta (GA 878) at 23:40 local time, arrived in Seoul at 08.30 local time. The aircraft return from Seoul (GA 879) at 10:35 local time and arrive in Jakarta at 15.30 local time.

The three flights will be using Airbus A330-200 with seating capacity of 36 business class and 186 seats in economy class. The "brand new" aircrafts equipped with a sophisticated "inflight entertainment (IFE)" of "audio & video on demand (avod)" on every seat with 25 movie choices, 10 TV programs, 35 options of music albums as well as 25 interactive video games. Business class seat of A-330-200 has also been equipped with "flat bed" seat that can be set up to 180 '.

The reinstatement of these direct flights from Jakarta to Sydney, Melbourne and Seoul is to add the existing service from Denpasar. Garuda Indonesia currently has the frequency of flights daily from Indonesia to Sydney, Melbourne and Seoul.

The reinstatement flights, is also part of the effort to make Jakarta as a more convenient hub in regional and international. Business travelers who travel from Australia will be more easy to fly to the destinations in the domestic, regional / Asia and in the Middle East via Jakarta and vice versa. In addition, this effort is also to attract more tourist to come to more potential of new tourist destination beyond Bali such as Pangkalpinang, Kendari, Malang, Kupang and the other tourist destinations.

The realization of the direct flight from Jakarta to Sydney, Melbourne and Seoul, will attach to the 13 routes already opened from from 18 routes planned in 2009. The route which have been opened including Lampung, Jambi, Pangkalpinang, Kendari, Malang, Kupang, Denpasar - Ampenan, Surabaya - Denpasar and Hong Kong - Hong Kong, and Jakarta - Shanghai.

To support the development of its business, Garuda Indonesia ordered 50 Boeing 737-800NG which will arrived in stages starting July 2009, and 10 Boeing 777-300ER that will begin arriving in 2011. In addition, in 2009 Garuda Indonesia is also bringing 4 new Airbus A-330-200 from the manufacturer in Toulouse, France.

Jakarta, August 1, 2009

PT. GARUDA INDONESIA

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