Wednesday 16 January 2013

The new Boeing 737-800 by Garuda Indonesia

by MKA,

I have made a post about the new MAS B737-800 over a year ago click here. Today I have just experienced the new B737-800 by Garuda Indonesia. This is one of the four new B737-800 addition to its fleet.The aircraft which was received by end of 2012, was used primarily for domestic flight and short haul regional destination.While it is a typical B737-800, but the in-flight entertainment hardware may vary from airlines to airlines and for some cases it may also vary from one aircraft to the other which operated by the same airline. The only difference compared to the same model operated by MAS is this aircraft lacking of usb port on the entertainment panel. But this will not make much difference though. As part of the "image overhaul" effort by the Indonesian flagship carrier, I could notice the level of service by the staff is so much better than MAS, sorry to say. Even in this flight which is a domestic flight. Well, one can argue that, quality of service is very objective thus the conclusion made by this may not be the accurate benchmark for comparison, but think about it, the spoon, fork and knife in MAS economy class are plastic, while Garuda are metal. Can you see the difference???
Interior view. Notice that the new indirect lighting.


No USB port?

Under the wing.

I couldn't go further back to capture the whole body, therefore I cannot show you the new livery.

Frontal view.

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