Garuda Indonesia will this week join the prestigious SkyTeam airline alliance. Garuda president director Emirsyah Satar said : “It means that our passengers can fly anywhere with one ticket only." Currently, 13 airlines — Aerosoft, Aeromexico, AirEuropa, Air France, Alitalia, China Southern, Czeh Airlines, Delta Airlines, Kenya Airways, KLM, Korean Air, TAROM, and Vietnam Airlines — have joined the alliance. SkyTeam member-airlines travel to 841 destination cities in 162 countries with 16,409 flights per day.

Garuda resumed services between Jakarta and Amsterdam earlier in 2010 and operates with a stopover in Dubai using Airbus A330-200 and the airline plans to introduce direct flight services linking Jakarta and Amsterdam once it receives its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. There are also plans to operate direct services from Jakarta to London commencing in 2011 or 2012.