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Garuda Indonesia Quit UAE

Airmale From Botswana, joined Sep 2004, 369 posts, RR: 2
Posted (10 years 9 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 971 times:

GA have quit Abu Dhabi thus exiting from the UAE market. When did this happen? what aircraft did they use?

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Danialanwar From Switzerland, joined Mar 2001, 421 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (10 years 9 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 950 times:

I think Abu Dhabi was only served as an intermediate stop on flights to Europe. Hence you'd have seen their 747-200's there. With the advent of the MD11 (now gone) and B747-400 Garuda flies nostop to Europe (Singapore-Frankfurt, Bangkok-London).
I recall flying Australia - Abu Dhabi (PER-DPS-BKK-AUH) in 1995 (I think). The B742 into Abu Dhabi was full ... when I got to immigration and baggage claim, I was the only one there! The flight went on to Paris I think. Flew back on SQ (AUH-CMB-SIN-PER), and now both have stopped flying into AUH.

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Airmale From Botswana, joined Sep 2004, 369 posts, RR: 2
Reply 2, posted (10 years 9 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 908 times:

AUH have also lost the services of Korean Air, Cathay Pacific and Philippine Airlines over the years. China Airlines(A340) and Royal Brunei(767) are the only East Asian's there now, with Thai(A300) coming in November.

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Zizou From Australia, joined Oct 2000, 1527 posts, RR: 5
Reply 3, posted (10 years 9 months 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 898 times:

Thats a big blow for Abu Dhabi. Garuda hadbeen operating into Abu Dhabi for a long time now.

Airmale From Botswana, joined Sep 2004, 369 posts, RR: 2
Reply 4, posted (10 years 9 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 894 times:

GA's only Middle East destination now is Saudi Arabia (Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam), they also breifly served Jordan in the 90's with the MD11, going onto London.

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Airmale From Botswana, joined Sep 2004, 369 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (10 years 9 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 888 times:

Egypt too was part of their network in the 80's.

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Airmale From Botswana, joined Sep 2004, 369 posts, RR: 2
Reply 6, posted (10 years 9 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 874 times:

Mandarin Airlines also used to fly to AUH with the 747SP in the 90's on behalf of China Airlines until CI decided to do the route themselves.

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