With the charge after the 28th Oct to be CGK-AMS-LHR-AMS-CGK, what are the guesses of the aircraft usage? AMS gets the 2-cabin B77Ws, will that be for LHR as well? If so does PK-GIF & PK-GIG lose their First cabins because apart from CGK-LHR these two aircraft are only used on DPS-NRT and First cannot be selected in the GA website for that holiday route. Then, that would be an end the GA First lounge in CGK (maybe used as another Business Class lounge) and the First CGK ground escort personnel, I would guess work on Business Class duties full time, likewise the on-board First chefs. They also would drop the CGK limo service. Finally, if they drop First I do not see what would put them so high in terms of status, I’ve flown First a few times and read reviews which says how good it is but nothing so say that their Business Class is above the competition and make GA stand out.

With a change in schedule times will GA stay at LHR T3 or shift to T4? At T4 they get the SkyTeam lounge (I prefer over the No1 Lounge in T3), it avoids the grime T3 G-zone checi-in area, awful drive into LHR Central and may help with SkyTeam connections (although I cannot think of any that cannot be handled at AMS). Would they also share ground handling services (Dnata?) of their SkyTeam partners? Does that save some pennies?

It’s about time GA dropped those gigantic B77Ws for the more efficient B787 and/or A350 for the long thin routes just like all their regional competitors (VN, SQ, MH, TG, CX, CZ, CI, BR(soon) all have them in one form or another). Then maybe LHR-CGK and/or LHR-DPS would work (flew LHR-CGK the other day and by the looks of folks very many where going onwards to DPS). I doubt the B77W routes require this aircraft for cargo capacity. GA do not even use the B77W to China, South Korea or all their Japanese routes. They have the A330-900NEO coming at some point in the future for the nearner long haul efficiency improvements (China, Austraila etc).

And unlike the regional competition GA will be the only (except for BR) doing a one-stop to their base from LHR and two-stop to anywhere else (e.g. DPS, MEL, SYD). So might as well choose SQ, MH, CX etc. as these are also one-stops but with greater schedule choices.

So I would not be suprised if the sector to/from AMS goes after awhile aswell without changes to the status quo.