The Triple Seven twinjet model is known as Boeing’s first fly-by-wire aircraft with computer-mediated controls and the first entirely computer-designed commercial airplane.

The handover ended earlier speculation that the delivery might be delayed due to reports of potential engine failure in the aircraft. Three aircraft will be ready next year and three more in 2015.Įach aircraft costs Garuda Indonesia around US$150 million. Garuda Indonesia ordered 10 Boeing 777-300ER as part of its fleet revitalization program. The second is expected to be delivered in July and two others by year’s end. The aircraft was the first Boeing 777-300ER the national flag carrier expected to receive this year. He was referring to two awards - The World’s Best Economy Class and The World’s Best Economy Class Seats - that Garuda received from Skytrax at the recent Paris Air Show. “This extraordinary aircraft will help us win the Best Business Class and the Best First Class awards”, Emirsyah said during the ceremony. Gontha and Chairul Tanjung, who owns 10.88 percent shares in the national flag carrier. (JP/Ricky Yudhistira)Ī red carpet ceremony at Boeing’s Everett Delivery Center in Seattle, United States, on Tuesday marked the official delivery of a Boeing 777-300ER from the American aircraft manufacturer to PT Garuda Indonesia.īoeing senior vice president of sales for Asia Pacific & India Dinesh Keskar symbolically handed over the aircraft to Garuda Indonesia president director Emirsyah Satar.Įmirsyah was accompanied by Indonesian Ambassador to the US Dino Patti Djalal, independent commissioner Peter F. First-hand experience: National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia president director Emirsyah Satar (right) and Chairul Tanjung, who has a 10.8 percent stake in the company, sit in the cockpit of a Boeing 777-300ER after a handover ceremony at Everett Delivery Center at Boeing’s headquarters in Seattle, the US, on Monday local time (Tuesday Jakarta time).

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