jfkeze

Garuda has placed their London to Bali direct flights on sale... Direct is the key term, the flight number remains the same but you fly via Medan KNO both ways... Talk about the traffic trades between Medan and London... 😉😃

Making things more interesting, Garuda uses their Airbus 330s on this route. But looking at sample dates it's an old configuration in 2-2-2... If you want more XPs or miles you can pick days of the week that take 50+ hours and hop around Indonesia... Timing on the return is at an ungodly 8:40 AM departure... great end to a vacation with that hotel checkout time haha

LHR-DPS would earn 15570 RDMs & MQMs 3114 MQDs 1.90 MQD Ratio. Fare books into I Class.

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mr_botak

Thanks. Anyone considering this should look at the other asian airlines section and check out the various threads about GAs shenanigans at LHR over the past two years.

Suffice it to say the odds of actually leaving London, on GA, to where you thought you were going are very, very slim!

criced

True, does not feel confident to book with Garuda from London or Amsterdam now.

jfkeze

Well these are in late August... so perhaps a bit more confident than say May 2020...

plunet

Here are the threads

Garuda LHR CGK zeroed out in GDS
Garuda LHR DPS technical stop

I echo the comments above - unless booking this for travel very soon be aware that GA have made multiple changes to the LHR route in the past year, including two complete cancellations, the first of which where they rerouted passengers at their expense and the second of which was a veiled threat but ended up with flights being reinstated albeit on different routing. Reading between the lines the LHR route is not making money, but politically they are being told to not cancel the route. One of the issues with the LHR CGK route was not only poor slot timings at LHR constraining their ability to connect onward to anything useful at CGK, but also the inability to fly the 773 that they were using to its full capacity as the runway at CGK couldn't handle the airframe fully loaded.

flybyinsg

Slightly off topic but 13h 20min flight time for an A330 must be close to the limit. I can't think of any other airline running an A330 on such a long route. ( Which makes me question what GA is doing)

IAN-UK

But there's a stop at Medan. I think LHR KNO is a little shorter than LHR KUL.

ATLConsultant

I flew Garuda biz from DPS to Seoul back in November. No issues at all. Great food and service.

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skywalkerLAX

Yes but that's a 6:30h flight vs 13:30h on the LHR-DPS. I don't think I could stomach it. YMMV

cmoltisanti

Bevers

Hi All

Booked LHR-DPS for end of Sept in business with Girlfriend and young son. What business class product is serving this route? Currently the seat selection map is 2-2-2 so does that mean the old product?

Thanks

Dan

LHR/MEL/Europe FF

The A330 is confirmed via flightaware. Swapped recently from a 777. You'd have to expect the flight is somewhat weight restricted.

QF flies the A332 PVG-SYD which is 10 hours plus change. The A333 can also do it, but weight restricted with lots of empty seats. Syill much shorter than the 12+ hours this GA flight is doing.

jfkeze

Sadly it's the old product...

skycruiserNL

A330's on longhauls like this are not uncommon imho.

Iberia operates 13h30 - 14h00 nonstop route MAD-NRT for some years now, with an A330-200

Delta is doing NGO-DTW on A330-200 as well which goes sometimes towards 12h30 also.

GA's LHR-KNO flight will be around 12h30-13h00 and therefore not too long compared to the Iberia one.

LHR/MEL/Europe FF

Thanks for the info! I had no idea the A332 could fly that far.