Garuda Indonesia is set to join SkyTeam in March of 2014, though ahead of that Air France/KLM Flying Blue has already announced a reciprocal agreement. While I'm not so excited about Flying Blue redemptions on Garuda Indonesia as such (due to the fuel surcharges and fairly high redemption rates), it's great to now have a…
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Do they still have a smoking section? I know it existed a few years ago because I had a colleague who specifically chose Garuda for that reason when he took flights from Europe to Asia. I just can't imagine being on a plane where smoking is allowed.
I'm not sure how useful these awards would be to Americans. Jakarta isn't exactly a exotic destination although one could connect thru Jakarta to Denpasar, Bali. Garuda flies non-stop to many big cities in Asia and Amsterdam, but not the US. Garuda flies to the US with a code share with China Airlines. Which the place that Americans really travel to Indonesia...Bali, could be 4 flights or more from the US. So how really useful will this be?
Last time I was in Bali, I didn't see too many Americans there. But for Australians it's like the Caribbean is to Americans-the closest exotic tropical island. I can't wait to see Garuda in Skyteam!
Oh wow, Airline X is joining Alliance Y where our points are already worth Zip.
As dumb as I've been with chasing points I never bothered with Sky Pesos. Although Korean is supposedly some sort of transfer partner with UR they're still stuck in the 1980's when it comes to technology. They also seem to have some serious problems when it comes to basic honesty. Imagine redeeming for "First Class" only to end up in Business. Is that some sort of unresolved mistake or do they just think we're a bunch of idiots who wouldn't know the difference?
Lucky, can you redeem etihad guest miles for garuda ? I heard that garuda is a partner of etihad as well
@ angerthas daeron -- You sure can, and the redemption chart is distance based:
http://www.etihadairways.com/sites/etihad/global/en/guestrecognition/visitor/etihadguest/partnerdetails/pages/garuda-indonesia.aspx
I found another TR, one is in J and the other in Y, unfortunately the J TR is in Indonesian
http://www.indoflyer.net/Forum/tm.asp?m=660279&mpage=1&key=򡐽
http://www.indoflyer.net/Forum/tm.asp?m=660802&mpage=1&key=򡕂
http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/trip_reports/read.main/243852/
More info on GA's F class:
F service:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OGUp6DvoD0
F amenities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYNgQI5XrQk
Lucky, have you looked into Garuda's FF miles redemption? It looks pretty lucrative.
@ asar -- Briefly had a look and didn't see anything that stood out to me as especially good. What did you see?