Yups, in Eid ul-Fitr (Lebaran) 2010 about a month ago, I used Garuda Indonesia to go home (mudik) from Jakarta to Yogyakarta round-trip. It became my first experience to fly with Garuda Indonesia. Finally I felt the experience flew with the one and only Indonesia’s full service airline!

Garuda Indonesia

Although it’s not my first experience fly with full service airline, but for domestic trip it became the first time. I’m happy with it!  Don’t care whatever people will say about that…

It can be said that I rather late to decide to buy ticket, more over holiday of Eid ul-Fitr are the most peak season in Indonesia. I bought the ticket on 3rd July 2010, about 2 months before the Eid ul-Fitr day. Many of my friends had bought the ticket about three until six months before the date!

e-ticket of Garuda Indonesia

I decided to buy Garuda Indonesia ticket because of the logical price that Garuda Indonesia offered. Jakarta – Yogyakarta, I got price at 1,362,000 IDR for economy class round-trip tickets. My flight schedule were 7th September 2010 for Jakarta-Yogyakarta and 14th September for Yogyakarta-Jakarta.
On the same dates, the other airlines offered the same price even more expensive! It didn’t matter if they are also full service airlines, but they don’t!

I booked the ticket via e-booking facility from Garuda Indonesia website. We should be a registered user previously to make a reservation. Good news, there’s NO “Convenience Fee” when I paid by a credit card.

Boarding Pass of Garuda Indonesia

Big surprise for me, my flight from Yogyakarta to Jakarta on 14th September 2010 used the aircraft with personal in-flight entertainment for each passengers! Wow, It feels like I’m going to go overseas or for long hours trip! (Yogyakarta – Jakarta trip is about 50-60 minutes) I’m not sure with the type of aircraft that I used, it could be Airbus A330-200 or Boeing 737-800.

Personal in-flight Entertainment

in-flight meal (snack)

The standard facilities of Garuda Indonesia flight are 20K baggage, free newspaper, in-flight snack (or meal for long hours trip) and beverage.

Yeah, I really enjoy it!!