Flight Review-KLM Royal Dutch Airline KL 0809 Kuala Lumpur-Jakarta

Without a doubt, in my personal opinion, the best option to travel from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta-in safe-comfort-style and affordable is by the Dutch flag carrier, KLM Royal Dutch Airline. Not only its promo fares for this route would always be less than RM 400 for return flight, in terms of aircraft used (they fly Boeing 777-200/300ER for this route-continuation from Amsterdam) which is wide bodied providing you space and comfort with updated selections of inflight-entertainment system, inflight services such as refreshing towels before meals and nice selections of meals and beverages accompanied by spontaneous and friendly cabin crew, they are by far the best compared to other airlines flying the same route.Being a regular traveller with them on this route and being an Ivory member of its FlyingBlue frequent flyer program, this post and review has been a long overdued and a much deserved one.

Our plane for the day-the mighty strong Boeing 772ER christened as "Litomydd Castle". Having arrived from Amsterdam and being prepared for its final leg to Jakarta.


each seat is equipped with small ptv with wide selections of movies-musics-games and other interactive programs. My choice of album for the day was Rihanna-Rated R..really love "Stupid In Love"...





we departed about 5 minutes after the estimated departure time. Once the seat-belt signs were switched off, the crews sprung into action by distributing the headsets (complimentary) and refreshing towels. Malaysia Airlines, being coveted as one of the 5-stars carrier will not provide you all of the aforesaid for flights of the same duration...go figure!

We were served late lunch (flight was at 4.15pm) which came in a tray with a very nice cover depicting Dutch heritage.

Our lunch with cover on


revealing the offering-fried rice with chicken satay-mango salad and local kueh









my drink selection-chill ginger ale...


after the meal, hot beverages-coffee or tea were served..in this cute paper cup...can be a collector's item as well...


after a flight time of 1 hour and 35 minutes we finally landed at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta International Airport




overall it was a "fun" flight.Note that i used the word "fun" as nowadays, though ive been a frequent flyer to various destinations, it's very hard to feel excited to fly as much as to reach the destination. With KLM, the inflight offerings and the service on-board seems to re-live that excitement. You wont find any young and beautiful stewardess but still the warmth and spontaneous acts of the cabin crew came to make up for what they are "lacking" physically. I hope to sample their long-haul flights in the future and hopefully it will be as exciting as the one ive been on.

Ratings (out of 5)
Equipment: 4
Cabin Crew: 3.5
IFE:4
Catering: 3