Garuda Indonesia is the national airlines and one of the best airlines from Indonesia. Besides operating domestic route, Garuda Indonesia also operates international routes. Some of them are: Jakarta-Amsterdam, Jakarta-Dubai and Jakarta-Tokyo. This article is the review of the writer personal experience of using Garuda Indonesia's International flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam.
Airlines
Garuda Indonesia is quite an established airlines with various awards such as "SKYTRAX most imporved airlines 2011". With numerous other domestic awards. This airlines is one of the few Indonesian airlines that operates international routes. Seeing a decline in the last decade of the 20th century, it sees significant improvement in the early 21st century.
Pre-flight services
It is easy to book ticket with Garuda Indonesia. You can visit the website http://www.garuda-indonesia.com/ and search the appropriate flight from the website. You can also see the timetables for the flight from this website. This website also shows several offers from the airlines. The flight are usually on time and delay is very rare.
Flight
There are three classes for Garuda Indonesia flight: economic class, business class and executive class. For international economic flight, the seat size is quite big with enough space for your feet. The flight ambience is quite nice with the dominant color of brown. One of the best thing about Garuda Indonesia's Flight is about the in-flight entertainment as the quality is very good. You can watch videos, play video games and also listen to various musics on flight. The videos are relatively recent as many new films such as "Wrath of the Titans" can be watched from the flight. The crew members are extremely helpful. One of my fellow passangers is a new mom. One of the Garuda Indonesia flight attendant help the mother to take care of the baby. Almost all of the flight attendants can speak english fluently.
Baggage-Service
The baggage service is Okay, I don't have any complaints with the service. All of my luggage were received intact.
Conclusion
Garuda Indonesia is one of the best airlines for travelling to and from Indonesia. The flight seat is spacious, the in-flight service and entertainment is commendable. We strongly advise you to consider Garuda Indonesia in a trip to Indonesia.