#etihad

Halo! Alhamdulillah sih belum pernah ya ngalamin yg dibilang buruk, tapi mungkin kurang nyaman aja.. Selama ini, gue naik pesawat Arab kalau ke UK/Belanda (sejauh ini coba nya Etihad dan Emirates), biasa nya selalu melihat ulah penumpang lain (seringnya sih rombongan tour umrah orang Indonesia) yg aneh2, kayak misalnya duduk sembarangan (tidak sesuai nomer pada tiket), teriak2/ketawa2 kenceng kepada temennya didlm pesawat, desak2an di boarding gate, buru2an masuk ke pesawat, dan banyak lagi yg terkesan "rusuh" sampe awak kabin atau foreigner lain ngeliatin dan kewalahan. Gue sendiri sampe suka pusing/ketawa2 sendiri ngeliatnya.. Cukup sedih liatnya, kan kasian penumpang lain yg merasa terganggu, apalagi kalau foreigners yg mau ke Indonesia dan mereka ngeliat tingkah laku orang nya ky gitu haha

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Are you from Citilink or what..

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Hmm okay, well basically it doesn't matter what airline is having partnership with what product. Kalo ngambil contoh Etihad dan Formula 1, ya ga ada hubungannya juga kok.

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Color palette-nya Etihad sama sekali bukan warna-nya Formula 1, and vice versa. Yang dipermasalahkan di sini (yaAllah berasa kasus beneran) adalah bagaimana sebisa mungkin buat bikin masyarakat tertarik.

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Etihad juga sengaja pake pesawat A340 untuk livery Grand Prix-nya karena A340 punya 4 mesin, jadi terkesan lebih powerful (again because of Formula 1).

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Lebih ke strategi aja sebenernya, you can have a worst product but if you execute it right than people might enjoy it (case in point: Syahrini). Banyak kok contoh-contohnya.

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What Citilink is doing is take their existing livery and smack their partner's logo. I can understand that they want to save money but there are other ways.

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Turkish airlines pulled this off. Design dasarnya nggak berubah tapi hasilnya tetep bagus karena penempatan dan komposisinya enak diliat.

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Kurang lebih gitu sih, dari pandangan orang yang sama sekali bukan anak art.

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Right now GA is focusing more direct route to medium-haul flights to East Asia and Australia, the two biggest market after Singapore. Before 2014, GA mainly flies to Tokyo and Perth if you're departing from CGK. Other routes (Melbourne and Sydney for instance) are only available if you depart from Bali.

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As the company focuses on those routes rather to expand to long-haul flights, the fleet itself remains very little for GA to extend to other destinations, given the fact that we are not positioned strategically at the globe. But then again GA does took a big leap connecting Jakarta to European cities such as Amsterdam or London, but not US just yet.

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The reason?

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Demand.

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Codeshare makes it easier for airlines to connect point-to-point departures as well as creating more benefit from both airlines, including convenience and cost-reduction. For instance, GA have a long history of codeshare with Etihad in connecting flights to further destination simply because GA had not yet expand further service in that destination (car rents, check in counters, offices offshore, hotel bookings, lounges, etc etc) because opening new routes for a 5-star airline is not merely getting one aircraft to that place, a lot of secondary services should also be operational (and of high quality).

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Demand for US destination from Asia have been mainly for business purposes, and very little compared when it comes to leisure. Also, connecting Jakarta to the US is far more cheaper if you go to LAX as compared to JFK, simply because its closer (LAX to JFK flights could add 7 more agonizing hours).

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Now this is the tricky part: demand for leisure is bigger to JFK whereas demand for business is bigger to LAX (from South-East Asia), remembering that Singapore Airlines offers full business-class seats on a direct flight from Changi to LAX. Now with less people travelling to JFK and also because JFK is further, GA still considered codeshare with Etihad far more profitable.

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But because GA is still growing, it needs to have more economy seats on a long-haul, and business people prefer business class. So people flying to LAX from CGK to do business prefers to take Singapore Airlines, while other people prefer EVA Air, Cathay, ANA, JAL, or China Airlines; which is a lot cheaper than a projected direct route from Jakarta to the West Coast.

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Panjang uga y.

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