Garuda Indonesia, KLM to boost cooperation

Garuda Indonesia, KLM to boost cooperation

JAKARTA (JP): The national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia and
the Dutch airline KLM agreed yesterday to expand their
cooperation in commercial flight services, the presidents of the
two companies announced.

"We agreed to promote the joint services in the winter and to
implement them next summer," Supandi, Garuda's president, and
Pieter Bouw, KLM's president, said.

Supandi said that the two companies have agreed to use double
flight numbers (GA/KL or KL/GA) for their Indonesia-Netherlands
services.

He said that Garuda will handle the seat reservations for
KLM's passengers who fly Indonesia's domestic routes, including
Denpasar, Yogyakarta, Padang and Ujungpandang.

"KLM will in turn handle the seat reservations for Garuda's
passengers who fly to Berlin, Madrid and Vienna via Amsterdam,"
he added.

He said that the two companies will also operate joint
regional services to Denpasar, Surabaya and Medan.

Supandi said that Garuda and KLM have for years been
implementing cooperation in aircraft maintenance, the storage and
use of spare parts and the training of staff and crew members.

Garuda and KLM have since last month been operating a cargo
service between Amsterdam and Jakarta once a week using Boeing
747s. (04)