Financially troubled Garuda Indonesia has secured a court order granting the carrier a short-term reprieve from making debt payments. The 9 December ruling by a commercial court comes after an IT solutions provider, Mitra Buana Koorporindo (MBK), filed a debt…
A fall in revenue from the passenger and other segments were the primary cause of a widening loss at the financially troubled Garuda Indonesia for the nine-month period to 30 September 2021. Operating loss came in at $1.67 billion, a…
Emirates and Garuda Indonesia have signed a memorandum of understanding on codeshare covering both carriers, and opportunities to cooperate on each other’s frequent flyer programs. This makes Emirates the second United Arab Emirates-based carrier Garuda is codesharing with, after Etihad Airways…
There have been several stories about the tight bathrooms on the new MAX8. This is not the only thing about the MAX8 that travelers might want to consider. Look at this seating table, which compares the active MAX8 fleet as…
Last Wednesday it happened in Indonesia. Citilink, owned by Garuda, initially denied the pilot was drunk. Later Citilink’s president and the airline’s production director resigned and the pilot was fired. Then on Saturday in Canada, a pilot at Sunwing was…
News from Indonesia does not look good for Airbus. Despite the fact that the A350 flight test program was completed without any major hitches, deliveries have been slow. However, orders have been even slower. In 2014 and 2015 Airbus has…