Garuda Indonesia November 2017. The last time Los Angeles was served was in 1997. As of 2018, however, the plan is yet to be realized. In February 2017, Garuda Indonesia announced that the airline will resume flights to Dubai and Moscow using wide body aircraft Airbus A330-200. This flight is planned to be resumed in 2018. In August 2018, Garuda Indonesia announced that the airline will end flights to London Heathrow by October, and is set to return by November with its Boeing 777-300ER on the same year. Codesharing has allowed Garuda Indonesia to expand services into Western Europe and the Middle
Garuda Indonesia Citilink, which provided low-cost flights to multiple Indonesian destinations and was spun-off in 2012. The earliest predecessor to Garuda Indonesia was KNILM, Royal Dutch Indies Airways, founded in 1928 during the Dutch colonial period; despite the similar name, it was not a subsidiary of the main Dutch carrier KLM. KNILM was dissolved in 1947, and its assets were transferred to a new KLM subsidiary, KLM Interinsulair Bedrijf (KLM Interinsular Service), which was nationalized in December 1949. The name "Garuda" was derived from a Dutch poem written by a renowned Javanese scholar and poet Raden Mas Noto Soeroto; ""Ik ben Garuda,