Garuda Indonesia East. In 2009, Garuda Indonesia expressed an interest in joining the SkyTeam airline alliance, which would make it the second airline in Southeast Asia to join after Vietnam Airlines. Membership would open SkyTeam's network to Indonesian, Australian, and New Zealand markets, which it lacked connectivity to. In December 2009, three SkyTeam members – Korean Air, KLM, and Delta Air Lines (China Airlines joined as fourth member to support Garuda after its 2011 SkyTeam inclusion) – committed to supporting Garuda Indonesia to join SkyTeam. This made Garuda Indonesia eligible to apply for membership in the alliance. On 23 November 2010, Garuda
Garuda Indonesia Indonesia signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to purchase 90 new aircraft from Boeing and Airbus (30 737 MAX 8, 30 787-9 Dreamliner, 30 A350-900 XWB) worth $20 billion at list prices Garuda has also signed an LoI for 14 Airbus A330-900neo aircraft (including 7 conversions from an existing A330-300 order) first reported during the Singapore Airshow 2016, confirming the order on 19 April 2016. On October 5, 2017, Garuda operated their last 747 service after PK-GSH touched down in Makassar from Medina as Garuda Indonesia Flight 1444, a returning Hajj flight. It was then ferried to Jakarta the following