Flight Jakarta to Surabaya with Garuda Indonesia Airways (GIA) ❗ T3 SHIA to Juanda Int’l Airport

Garuda Indonesia is the flag carrier of Indonesia, headquartered at Soekarno–Hatta International Airport. A successor of KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf, it is a member of SkyTeam 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 well as other cities for Hajj. It is the only Indonesian airline that flies to the European airspace.

At its peak from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, Garuda operated an extensive network of flights all over the world, with regularly scheduled services to Adelaide, Cairo, Fukuoka, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome 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, 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 fleet and facilities and a renewed focus on international markets, and earning the airline awards such as Most Improved Airline, 5-Star Airline, and World’s Best Cabin Crew by Skytrax.

The airline also operated a budget subsidiary, Citilink, which provided low-cost flights to multiple Indonesian destinations and was spun-off in 2012. In November 2018, the airline took over operations as well as financial management of Sriwijaya Air by a cooperation agreement (KSO); this expired in December 2019.

History
Beginnings (1949–60s)
The earliest predecessor to Garuda Indonesia was KNILM, Royal Dutch Indies Airways, founded in 1928 during the Dutch colonial period; despite the similar name, it was not a subsidiary of the main Dutch carrier KLM. KNILM was dissolved in 1947, and its assets were transferred to a new KLM subsidiary, KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf (KLM Interinsular Service), which was nationalized in December 1949.

In its current institutional form, Garuda Indonesia had its beginnings in the Indonesian war of independence against the Dutch in the late 1940s, when Garuda flew special transports with a Douglas DC-3. The first aircraft was a DC-3 known as Seulawah (Acehnese: “Gold Mountain”, or from Arabic Shalawah, means praise/worship) and was purchased for a sum of 120,000 Malayan dollars, which was provided by the people of Aceh (notably local merchants). The first commercial flight from Calcutta to Rangoon was made on 26 January 1949, using a DC-3 Dakota aircraft with the tail number of “RI 001” and the name “Indonesian Airways”. 26 January 1949 is generally recognized as the airline’s founding date.

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Asal usul nama Garuda Indonesia
Pada tanggal 25 Desember 1949, wakil dari KLM yang juga teman Presiden Soekarno, Dr. Konijnenburg, menghadap dan melapor kepada presiden di Yogyakarta bahwa KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf akan diserahkan kepada pemerintah sesuai dengan hasil Konferensi Meja Bundar (KMB) dan meminta kepada dia memberi nama bagi perusahaan tersebut karena pesawat yang akan membawanya dari Yogyakarta ke Jakarta nanti akan dicat sesuai nama itu.

Menanggapi hal tersebut, Presiden Soekarno menjawab pertanyaan tersebut dengan mengutip satu baris dari sebuah sajak bahasa Belanda gubahan pujangga terkenal, Raden Mas Noto Soeroto di zaman kolonial yang berisi, Ik ben Garuda, Vishnoe’s vogel, die zijn vleugels uitslaat hoog boven uw eilanden (“Aku adalah Garuda, burung milik Wisnu yang membentangkan sayapnya menjulang tinggi di atas kepulauanmu”).

Maka pada tanggal 28 Desember 1949, penerbangan bersejarah menggunakan pesawat DC-3 dengan registrasi RI-001 milik KLM Interinsulair terbang membawa Presiden Soekarno dari Yogyakarta ke Jakarta untuk menghadiri upacara pelantikannya sebagai Presiden Republik Indonesia Serikat (RIS) dengan nama Garuda Indonesian Airways, yang diberikan oleh Presiden Soekarno kepada perusahaan penerbangan pertama ini.

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