In Reply to: Review on Garuda's Executive Class posted by Putu_Les on Thursday, 6. August 2009 at 10:23 Bali Time:
I read that the PR blurb for the new direct flights from Melbourne to Jakarta. Garuda claims that they are well known for servicing the leisure market from Australia to Bali but now want to be known for flying business class passengers direct to Jakarta.
My translation is that the old aircraft are good enough for low yield passengers to Bali, but the new aircraft will get them higher yielding passengers.
It will be interesting to see how Qantas reacts to this new competition on direct flights to Jakarta from Australia. Qantas now uses Jetstar to take the low yield passengers to Bali, while maintaining Qantas flights to Jakarta. Loadings are low on these Qantas flights but revenue per passenger is higher than on the Jetstar flights to Bali.