Happy 64th Year of Independance Indonesia

Alas, the time has come to celebrate this moment, i would just ilke to say, that Indonesia's avation and it's nation transform into a better Indonesia for tommorow.

Indonesia 64 Years, it's Avation ?

Tommorow will mark the day the country turns into 64 years of Independence from the Dutch. But, is it aviation still not good ? Let us review some aspects, which are, Airline Competitiveness, Airline Diversity, Safety Factors, and the Regulating board, which is the KNKT or the Komite Nasional Kecelakaan Transportasi. Now, airline competitiveness. It is a word that used to not exsist in Indonesia; because of the monopoly of the State-Run Airline. But since massive transformations, now there are a lot of carriers, and all of them are competing for passangers, which will open up transparancies in the Indonesian Airline and also motivate airlines to market their product effectively and efficiently. Second, Airline Diversity. The airlines Vision and Mission constitute this part, with almost all of the private Airline companies either a Chartered based airline, or a Low Cost Carrier, and the State owned airline, is a Full Service one. Which makes monopoly of the market impossible. Also, the third point, Safety Factors. GMF Aero-Asia is a Maintenance faclility. A lot of the airlines, cannot afford their own maintenance facilities, therefore GMF AA is contracted on a yearly basis to provide checks on all of the Aircraft.

Finally, the regulations board, although came with a lot of critisisms for mishandling all of the accidents and not regulating properly, the DGAC is now on the right track for a safer Indonesia. With the new regulations of the UU Penerbangan or Aviation Law in effect, offenders will pay serious sanctions and may face Operators Licence revoked.

Lets hope that Indonesia, can be a model for other ASEAN countries.

Indonesia's Airline Safety

In recent years surrounding the Adam Air 574 Incident, many has questioned about the Indonesian airlines' safety record and the airlines operators to ensure the safety or their fleet. After the Adam incident, the European Union or EU, had put all Indonesian Airlines to their black list, not permitting us to fly anywhere near or on their airspace. Their reasoning is simple and is supported by facts. First of all, the incidents were occuring in all branches of Aviation. Those will be Full Service Carriers, Garuda Indonesia and Low Cost Carriers, Lion Air, Adam Air. Almost all of these incidents will include the following; either an Pilot Error, or skidding along the runway, and their undercarriages broken.

The pilot error scenario can be seen in Garuda Indonesia flight 200, where the captain had ignored the Co-Pilot and the numerous warnings given by the Airplane that the speed was too fast, and that the flaps lowered were not sufficient for landing. It skidded and was broken in half, many were Indonesians, and some were Australians.

The skidding part, is from Lion Air, the aircraft is a Brand New Boeing 737-900ER. Nevertheless, it was still doomed. Many can cause the aircraft to skid, either high speed whilst landing/rolling, or severe weather and crosswinds, a higher percentage if accompanied with thunderstorms.

The Adam Incident, really put Indonesia on the world map for ( Not a Good Thing ), and now, the Indonesian Government is trying it's best to better supervise, regulate and punish rowdy airlines who dont follow policies. 2 years on, the transformation has been exciting and a rewarding one at that. Now, 4 airlines can go to the European Union, and hopefully, all Indonesian Carriers can be awarded that luxury.

Garuda Indonesia new Livery

Hello all of Garuda Indonesia's fans and supporters, today i will be blogging about Garuda Indonesia's new livery, which has been set last month. I think that the concept of the "rebranding" is very nice, and is meant to promote Garuda Indonesia, amongst the top 5 airlines currently ranked 5 stars by Skytrax. Those Carriers are :

a. Cathay Pacific

b. Malaysia Airlines

c. Singapore Airlines

d. British Airways

e. Thai Airways

This new livery, and the new logo, and the changing of the old Garuda Uniforms to kebaya, is needed for competing in the Global Market. Also, with the addition of 50 New Boeing 737-800 NG and the addition of at least 4 A330-200 and 10 Boeing 777-300ER it is hoped that Garuda Indonesia can have it's moments of glory and be recognized as a 5 star airline or better yet, awarded the title " Best Airline in Asia". Surely these would catapult Indonesia and it's aviation Industry as a market leader and a benchmark for other Airlines.

With improved PTV and AVOD in all classes in the new A330-200 and 737-800, your flight, will be a resting place, also as an entertainment suite, where movies and music programmes, keep you wanting for more. And make a long-haul flight to Amsterdam or Doha, a piece of cake.

In line with it's corporate Rebranding, Garuda Indonesia is also looking forward to flying to Amsterdam and other European Countries, where it has regained it's trust, and has been written off it's black list. And, the first flight to Amsterdam ( via Dubai ) will start commencing in January of 2010.

Garuda Indonesia is now " The Airline of Indonesia "