The777Man From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 6079 posts, RR: 56 Posted (1 year 7 months 4 hours ago) and read 8466 times:
Hi!
Garuda Indonesia was supposed to take delivery of their first 777-300/ER in February 2011 but postponed delivery about six months before delivery. It was then mentioned that they would take delivery "about a year later"
So is that still the plan ? Garuda will still take delivery of their first 777 in February or March 2012 ?
Thanks for any insight !
The777Man
Need a Boeing 777 Firing Order....Further to fly....GA, T5, CI and LX 777s
HB-IWC From Greece, joined Sep 2000, 4414 posts, RR: 76 Reply 1, posted (1 year 7 months 4 hours ago) and read 8466 times:
Last thing I heard about this was that the first aircraft would be delivered in Q3 2012, but thruth be told, this is all shrouded in a lot of mystery. On the level of fleet and route planning, contingencies are currently being made for all kinds of new routes, but it is unclear which ones of those plans will materialize when.
IIRC, the initial order was for six, but when the 787 order was cancelled, the 77W order was increased to 10.
Quoting wn700driver (Reply 4): Edit: Whoa, looks like we have a ten-year club in this thread, lol...
Yes, the "old guys" of A.net - who can remember GA when it was firmly on the "avoid" list; great to see an airline turn itself around as GA has done in recent years!
infinit From Singapore, joined Jul 2008, 299 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 7727 times:
Doubt I'll get to fly GA anytime soon unless I do a short hop down to Indonesia. Very likely to do GA for that but they definitely won't put this new birds on this route
RWA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2157 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (1 year 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 7664 times:
If or when GA gets its 77W's, think there is any chance of them coming back to LAX? Obviously they could eliminate a stop or two with the range of the 77W vs the DC-10's, M11's or 747's previously used.
Next Flights: AS PDX-SEA-KOA on DH4/738 in F, HA KOA-OGG on 717 in Y, AS OGG-PDX on 738 in F
The777Man From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 6079 posts, RR: 56 Reply 8, posted (1 year 6 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 6812 times:
Quoting ba319-131 (Reply 3): I'll be expecting a Bimen TR from you soon Lars
Hi Mark! Give me about six months or so as I have some other trips planned. Just had my kidney transplant about ten days ago
Quoting infinit (Reply 6): Doubt I'll get to fly GA anytime soon unless I do a short hop down to Indonesia. Very likely to do GA for that but they definitely won't put this new birds on this route
I think it's a possibility that GA may fly that route for crew familirazation purposes. I could see them fly CGK-SIN, CGK-DPS and CGK-HKG. Since they are getting 10 77W, they will need train a lot of pilots.
We'll see.
Quoting kaitak (Reply 5): Had a quick look at the Wiki site for GA; 10 are on on order, for delivery from February. Will be one nice looking aircraft!
I think HB-IWC is much more reliable than Wikipedia so I'll go with Q3 2012.
The777Man
Need a Boeing 777 Firing Order....Further to fly....GA, T5, CI and LX 777s
A388 From Netherlands Antilles, joined May 2001, 9067 posts, RR: 13 Reply 11, posted (1 year 6 months 3 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 3067 times:
Quoting VC10er (Reply 10): A great new LANDOR identity! It will look even better on a 777-300.
Yes, I agree with you. Landor is the best airline branding company in my opinion. Which is their latest airline (re-)branding and do they have any other airline (re-)brands in the works?
The article refers to an interview of the GA G.M. for Australia, who discusses that the A332s used for flights to CGK are equipped with flat beds in J with 75 inch seat pitch, and that the product to DPS has 165 degree lie-flat beds in J. More interesting, however, is that the date of accession as a SkyTeam member is mid-2012, and that 2012 is also the year when GA will receive its first 77Ws (out of a total of 10 on order) that will include F (suites similar to 9W's), J and Y, and will let GA launch nonstops to Europe. GA intends to serve LON, FRA, CDG, FCO and AMS. It is not clear if all these cities will receive 77W nonstop service or not.
kiwiandrew From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 8435 posts, RR: 15 Reply 13, posted (1 year 6 months 1 week 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2368 times:
Quoting A388 (Reply 11): Yes, I agree with you. Landor is the best airline branding company in my opinion.
Yet they have royally screwed it up with GA by replacing the instantly recognisable Garuda bird with meaningless wavy streaks on the tail. Sorry, but I don't drink the "Anything Landor does is automatically an improvement" kool-aid.
Moderation in all things ... including moderation ;-)
A388 From Netherlands Antilles, joined May 2001, 9067 posts, RR: 13 Reply 14, posted (1 year 6 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2315 times:
Quoting kiwiandrew (Reply 13): Yet they have royally screwed it up with GA by replacing the instantly recognisable Garuda bird with meaningless wavy streaks on the tail. Sorry, but I don't drink the "Anything Landor does is automatically an improvement" kool-aid.
The Garuda bird is kept on the fuselage whereas the new tail logo also reflects the bird's feather's up close. You will not see the bird, but there definately is a resemblence when looking at the tail logo. You just have to see it, that's all. At first I also wasn't impressed by the new GA livery but seeing it a few times and thinking about the design, I think it is a good design. The colors are still very unique which makes the new livery recognizable from a distance as well. And to make it clear, I never said that everything Landor does is an improvement. To me they are just the best design bureaus on the market but even the best bureaus can have bad designs.
kiwiandrew From New Zealand, joined Jun 2005, 8435 posts, RR: 15 Reply 15, posted (1 year 6 months 1 week 6 days 11 hours ago) and read 2278 times:
Quoting A388 (Reply 14): To me they are just the best design bureaus on the market but even the best bureaus can have bad designs.
True, and for me, the GA livery definitely belongs in the "oh my god, what where they thinking when they threw that together?" category. I realise that whether a livery is good or bad is very subjective, and it is clear from this thread that there must be at least half a dozen people in the world who like it, however, I certainly don't.
Moderation in all things ... including moderation ;-)
smi0006 From Australia, joined Jan 2008, 1380 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (1 year 6 months 1 week 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 2185 times:
Quoting kiwiandrew (Reply 13): Yet they have royally screwed it up with GA by replacing the instantly recognisable Garuda bird with meaningless wavy streaks on the tail. Sorry, but I don't drink the "Anything Landor does is automatically an improvement" kool-ai
Not sure Landor screwed it up, I think images of GA aircraft wreckage did that a few years ago. Whilst I concede I think an actual logo on the tail would have been nice instead of streaks of colour, I like the consistency across the braninding especially crew uniforms.
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