Early 1980s, Garuda began transferring domestic routes to one of its subsidiaries, Merpati Nusantara Airlines, also wholly owned by the government.

In 2008, Garuda Indonesia and all other Indonesian airlines were put onto the European Blacklist due to safety concerns. This came after a series of accidents and incidents in Indonesia involving aircraft owned and operated by Indonesian carriers, the main lead up to this was the crash of Adam Air Flight 574 and other accidents involving Adam Air.

On 10 June 2009, Garuda Indonesia revealed a new color scheme after 22 years of donning the current design.

Garuda’s corporate scheme throughout the years :

On 10 June 2009, Garuda Indonesia revealed a new color scheme on the new Airbus A330-200 after 22 years of donning the current design. The overhauled tail consists of different shades of blue with the titles ‘Garuda Indonesia’ in the center of both sides of the fuselage. Garuda retains its Landor designed mythical bird on the fuselage in this new scheme and continues to use the bird as its corporate identity. With the introduction of this new paint scheme, Garuda will also introduce new uniform for its crew. Kebayas are expected to make their comeback to Garuda and this time they will be designed by the highly respected Batik maestro of Indonesia, Ms. Josephine Komara of the Bin House.

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The A330-200 was developed to compete with the Boeing 767-300ER. The A330-200 is similar to the A340-200 or a shortened version of the A330-300. With poor sales of the A340-200 (of which only 28 were built), Airbus decided to use the fuselage of the A340-200 with the wings and engines of the A330-300. This significantly improved the economics of the plane and made the model more popular than the four-engined variant.

Its vertical fin is taller than that of the A330-300 to restore its effectiveness due to the shorter moment arm of the shorter fuselage. It has additional fuel capacity and, like the A330-300, has a Maximum Take-Off Weight (MTOW) of 233 tonnes. Typical range with 253 passengers in a three-class configuration is 12,500 km (6,750 nautical miles).Power is provided by two General Electric CF6-80E, Pratt & Whitney PW4000 or Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines. All engines are ETOPS-180 min rated. First customer deliveries, to ILFC/Canada 3000, were in April 1998.

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