Some of the increased options that passengers now have for international flights to Europe.
This is thanks to an increase in Middle-Eastern airlines flying from Indonesia to their hub in the Persian Gulf – often direct and non-stop – connecting to many other cities in Europe.
These airlines not only offer cheaper flights and better connection times, they offer faster/more direct flight paths to many larger European cities (e.g. Berlin, Milan, Birmingham, Vienna) that aren’t hub airports themselves or don’t receive many inter-continental flights. For example, people in Birmingham don’t have to fly via London Heathrow or another European hub before continuing to Asia.
This post outlines some of these options in more detail. For the short version, see here.
Based in: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Flies from: Jakarta, twice daily non-stop
Destinations: 105
In Europe: Amsterdam, Athens, Birmingham, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Istanbul, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Newcastle, Paris, Prague, Rome, Venice, Vienna, Zurich.
Based in: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Flies from: Jakarta, daily non-stop
Destinations: 66
In Europe: Athens, Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Manchester, Minsk, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Paris.
Based in: Kuwait City, Kuwait
Flies from: Jakarta, 3 days/week via Kuala Lumpur
Destinations: 37
In Europe: Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Paris, Rome.
Based in: Doha, Qatar
Flies from: Jakarta, 9 times/week via Kuala Lumpur;
Denpasar, 7 days/week with a stop in Singapore
Destinations: “More than 90”
In Europe: Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Zurich, Vienna. Coming soon: Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Nice.
Based in: Istanbul, Turkey
Flies from: Jakarta, 6 days/week via Singapore
Destinations: More than 100, perhaps some are code-share flights
In Europe: Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cologne, Copenhagen, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hannover, Helsinki, Kiev, Lisbon, London, Lyons, Madrid, Manchester, Milan, Minsk, Moscow, Nice, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, Sarajevo, Sofia, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Venice, Vienna, Zurich.
Based in: Sanaa, Yemen
Flies from: Jakarta, 3 times/week via Kuala Lumpur
Destinations: 34
In Europe: Frankfurt, London, Marseille, Paris, Rome.
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I need information about flight Indonesia (Jakarta / Denpasar) to Hungary (Budapest) return for short course in July 2011. Thank you.
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I’ve spent far more hours wandering around Abu Dhabi or Dubai airport in the jet-lagged middle of the night than I would like, but yes, these airlines are generally the first choice on price for flying anywhere in Southeast Asia, and in the case of Emirates and Etihad (both of which I’ve flown with a bunch of times) rate pretty high on service too…
I’d probably lean away from Kuwait Airways. They are usually cheap coming FROM Indonesia, but there seems to be an unnaturally high chance of getting stuck in Kuwait because of connection problems. I once spent a bleak 24 hours locked in an airport hotel in Kuwait, and exactly the same thing happened to a friend of mine last year…
Does Gulf Air still fly from Jakarta? I haven’t flown with them for ages, but they used to be a pretty good choice for cheap flights between Europe and Asia…
Chris, maybe you can explain something to me – why is a return between the UK and Indonesia always cheaper if the UK is the starting point? You can NEVER find an Indonesia-UK-Indonesia flight as cheap as a UK-Indonesia-UK flight, even with the same airline…