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GARUDA CANCELLING EUROPEAN FLIGHTS
20 November 2002 Source: Reuters
Garuda Indonesia will suspend all flights to Europe from January because of lower demand since last month’s nightclub bombing on its resort island of Bali, AFP reported.
The carrier, which flies to three European destinations, will halt flights between Bali and London from January 5 until March 29. It will also cancel flights to Amsterdam from Jakarta between January 22 and February 20.
The carrier earlier cancelled flights to Frankfurt and reduced its three weekly flights to London to two. It also cancelled flights to the Australian cities of Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide from Bali, the paper reported.
The nightclub bombing left about 190 people dead, mostly tourists, in the nation’s worst terrorist attack. Hotel occupancy rates have plunged, and foreign governments including the US and Australia have urged their citizens to leave Indonesia or cancel non essential trips.
By: dcfly - 23rd November 2002 at 17:33
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-11-02 AT 05:34 PM (GMT)]Garuda Boeing 747-400 seen at LGW this afternoon (23-11-02)
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By: EGNM - 23rd November 2002 at 13:49
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should do again after the Hadj – most of the company ups everything and moves out there!
By: Saab 2000 - 23rd November 2002 at 12:52
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-11-02 AT 12:54 PM (GMT)]Yeah sorry they do use the DC-10s on both the DTW and MSP.I’m sure they used to use the 747…
LGW will still get the Air Atlanta 747s in as well I would think?
By: A330Crazy - 23rd November 2002 at 12:34
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I thought NW only used the DC-10’s on flights to LGW?
By: Saab 2000 - 23rd November 2002 at 08:56
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Northwest 747-400 fly the LAX-DTW-LGW flights?
By: dcfly - 22nd November 2002 at 22:30
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……and the occassional EAL -200
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By: A330Crazy - 22nd November 2002 at 22:17
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[updated:LAST EDITED ON 22-11-02 AT 10:17 PM (GMT)]Yes thats what I meant. The 747’s, sorry should have made it a bit more clearer as to what I meant!
By: Bhoy - 22nd November 2002 at 22:12
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that operates 747s to Gatwick, you mean?
By: A330Crazy - 22nd November 2002 at 21:43
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Antoher airline that uses the heavies that will be gone from Gatwick. Just virgin left now really?! 🙁
By: mongu - 22nd November 2002 at 18:02
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Isn’t there an Australian carrier starting up, to cater for large and unserved demand for Australia-Bali??
By: Saab 2000 - 22nd November 2002 at 17:13
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Well it is bad news that they are suspending their European flights.
Could the Hadj services be off any influence to the European suspension?This is an obvious lucrative market for Garuda and i’m sure they would probably make more money on them rather than their European flights.Instead of them leasing equipment for the flights, they can save some of the money by using the aircraft which should of been on the European flights.Just a thought…
But anyway,it is bad news that the flights have been suspended.The situation in Indonesia doesn’t help.I only hope that maybe the flights could be restarted in the future,however,they are not exactley reliable anymore for travel companies.
By: KabirT - 22nd November 2002 at 09:17
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Hmm bad news..i always thought garuda had a great potential to grow.
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