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Garuda Indonesia

Garuda Indonesia
Garuda Indonesia Logo.svg
IATA ICAO Callsign
GA GIA INDONESIA
Founded 1 August 1947 as KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf
Commenced operations 26 January 1949 as Garuda Indonesian Airways
Hubs
Secondary hubs
Focus cities
Frequent-flyer program GarudaMiles
Alliance SkyTeam
Subsidiaries
Fleet size 144
Destinations 133 (60 Domestic and 73 International)
Company slogan The Airline of Indonesia
Parent company Indonesian Ministry of State Owned Enterprises (60.51%)
Headquarters Garuda City Center Building Complex
M1 Street, Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia
Key people
Revenue IncreaseUS$3.81 billion (2015)
Net income Increase US$77.97 million (2015)
Employees 20,000 (March 2016)
Website garuda-indonesia.com

Garuda Indonesia (PT Garuda Indonesia (Persero) Tbk : GIAA) is the national airline of Indonesia. Named after the holy bird Garuda of Hinduism from the national emblem of Indonesia, the airline is headquartered at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Tangerang, near Jakarta. As of 11 December 2014, the airline is rated as a 5-star airline by the international airline review firm Skytrax. The air carrier was previously known as Garuda Indonesian Airways.

Founded in 1947 as KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf, the airline is now one of the world's leading airlines and the 20th member of the global airline alliance SkyTeam. It operates regularly scheduled flights to a large number of destinations in Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia and Europe from its main hub in Jakarta, Soekarno–Hatta International Airport, as well as services to Australia and Asia from Ngurah Rai International Airport (Bali) and a large number of domestic flights from both Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport (Makassar) and Kualanamu International Airport (Medan).

At its peak in the late 1980s up to the mid-1990s, Garuda operated an extensive network of flights all over the world, with regularly scheduled services to Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, Fukuoka, Adelaide, Johannesburg, Cairo and other cities in Europe, Australia and Asia. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a series of financial and operational difficulties hit the airline hard, which included the in-flight murder of a human rights activist by airline staff, causing it to drastically cut back services. In 2009, the airline undertook a five-year modernization plan known as the Quantum Leap, which overhauled the airline's brand, livery, logo and uniforms, as well as newer, more modern aircraft and facilities and a renewed focus on international markets, and earning the airline awards such as Most Improved Airline and World's Best Cabin Crew.


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