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Old 25th Jun 2014, 12:07
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Heathrow Harry
 
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Apparently way back Garuda used a hub & spoke system in Indonesian domestic- you'd take a DC-10 (no less) at some god awful hour after midnight from Jakarta to somewhere like Macassar/Unjumg Pandang

You'd get into the "terminal" and be issued with a new boarding pass and there, lined up neatly on the tarmac was a line of F-27's and F-28's for onwards flights to the ends of the earth

Of course there was zero signage or information as to which was which and it was reasonably common to find people on completley the wrong flight - normally only discovered when you arrived at Ambon when you thought you were in Jayapura...........

They were pretty good at getting you back (a day late) and recovering the luggage (which always seemed to go to the right place - but only when you didn't...)
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