A small tombstone to the fallen giants of Indian aviation: Jet Airways and Vistara, both of whose journeys officially came to an end in November Without these two lodestars, Indian β and global β skies will never be the same.
Rest in peace! Fingers crossed for its results! As such, the next report in chronological order after this one, my first in 6 years on Malaysia Airlines, will be published only in January after reports on two Emirates A flights that I took in July and hope to publish within December Fly the Garuda Indonesia Aneo from Singapore to Jakarta, given how rare a plane it is otherwise in the Garuda fleet.
After a few hours, fly the MH β after 6 years and 6 days of avoiding s β to Johor Bahru near Singapore. This was more of conquering a fear of flying the , compounded after the MAX crashes in β19, than anything else. But it was also my first flight to not only Indonesia but also the Southern Hemisphere as a whole, and suffice it to say that many firsts were made on that flight. I flew two blissful Garuda As in June , from Denpasar to Jakarta and onwards to Singapore , and the even more tranquil GA Aneo in June , as in the previous report.
However, most of the branding remains unchanged and continues to use the Noa font, as above, which was introduced in and remains strongly associated with the airline. Meanwhile there are no fifth-freedom airlines between Singapore and Jakarta, now that KLM no longer operates that one either, with all Singapore flights continuing to Denpasar.
One thing, however, needs no effort to understand at all: KL was a total comedy of errors, with a strangely messed-up In stark contrast to the excellence that Royal Dutch Airlines nailed the previous June to Denpasar, this leg between the Indonesian and Malaysian capitals could have been so much better than it actually was.
