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It operated as Indonesian Airways. President Sukarno changed the name to Garuda Indonesia Airways in November 1946, later Garuda Indonesia. [4] The golden age of the airline started in 1956, when it operated Hajj flights using its eight Convair CV-240s. In 1963, it operated flights to Tokyo via Hong Kong using three Lockheed L-188 Electra.
Garuda Indonesia Airways is the flag carrier of Indonesia, headquartered at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport near Jakarta.A successor of KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf, it is a member of SkyTeam airline alliance and the second-largest airline of Indonesia after Lion Air, operating scheduled flights to a number of destinations across Asia, Europe, and Australia from its hubs, focus cities, as ...
Garuda Indonesia Flight 542 was a scheduled passenger flight on 3 February 1961, which was reported missing en route from Surabaya to Balikpapan. All 26 occupants on board were lost in the accident. All 26 occupants on board were lost in the accident.
Flight 892 arrived at Santacruz Airport in Bombay at 01:45 a.m. local time (08:15 p.m. UTC 27 May). [1] Having originated from Jakarta at 06:00 p.m. local time (11:00 a.m. UTC) the previous evening with preceding stopovers in Singapore and Bangkok, the flight was part of the airline's Jakarta to Amsterdam milk run service with stopovers in Singapore, Bangkok, Bombay, Karachi, Cairo, and Rome.
Poor occupancy caused Indonesia's national airline Garuda Indonesia to eventually pull out of the airport in September 2019. [37] On 1 July 2019, all domestic flights from Husein Sastranegara Airport (located within the city of Bandung) were diverted to Kertajati Airport. [38]
In June 2007, the European Union banned Garuda Indonesia, along with all other Indonesian airlines, from flying into any European country due to poor safety records. [29] [30] The ban on Garuda Indonesia was lifted in July 2009. [31] By the 2010s, the condition of Indonesian aviation began to improve compared to the previous decade. [32]
Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto (26 January 1961 – 17 October 2020) was an Indonesian pilot for Garuda Indonesia airline and an alleged agent of Indonesia's State Intelligence Agency (BIN). [1] He was involved in the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib with arsenic on 7 September 2004.
On 9 January 2021, Sriwijaya Air Flight 182 operating flight from Soekarno–Hatta International Airport to Supadio International Airport with 62 people total on board (50 passengers, 12 crew members) disappeared from radar four minutes after takeoff. It was later confirmed by officials that Flight 182 crashed in the waters off the Thousand ...