Garuda Indonesia is adding another flight to Sydney. The increase in tourist numbers justify the new new flight (GA717) which will fly on Wednesdays direct from Sydney to Denpasar, leaving at 10am, arriving 2.45pm local time. The return flight (GA716) is a ‘red-eye’ flight, leaving at 1am on Wednesday and arriving in Sydney at 8.30am the same day.
Bali badly needs the revival of Australian tourism and more flights will encourage this. The Indonesian government tends to protect Garuda by not allowing foreign discount airlines to compete on their routes, which is one thing, but you must make enough affordable flights available. I reckon someone could start a business catering to those ‘red-eye’ tourists, providing a ‘going away party special’, including cocktails, dinner, party and transportation to the airport.
Here’s more from eTravelBlackboard.
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This is off topic.
I’m sorry to post here in comments but I could not find your email.
My wife would like to spend 1 month in Bali learning ayurvedic massage.
Can you help finding some schools?
Thank you in advance.
Miguel
When are they going to fly from Brisbane again?
It is a pity that Garuda keeps forgetting about Adelaide as there seems to be a lot of people talking about returning to Bali but it is impossible to get direct flights compaired to destinations like Puket ect out of Adelaide.
I am sure one of the reasons there are more passengers out of Sydney is that Garuda has totally cancelled all flights from Brisbane & NZ & we now have to go via Sydney or Melbourne. Doesnt really make sense – several more hours in travel time, waiting in airports etc & obviously higher costs as one has to change airlines so therefore hard to get specials.
Nick,
Please check out the following link. The EU has banned all Indonesian Aircraft from it\’s airspace.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/airlines/story/0,,2114555,00.html
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