Garuda 90% off award bookings until Dec 31st

[MEL_Traveller]

Dang, presumably those who have reserved the 90% off seats would still be able to follow through with their booking considering Garuda's justification via twitter is that all promo seats are gone.

Withdrawing early is a good thing if there are no seats left... but the question is whether the seats have actually gone... it seems many people have awards on hold which they will be unable to convert into tickets but haven't cancelled them.

Anyway - great deal for those who got them!

 

[Kimster]

Some experience here:

I have some Garuda miles and thought I make use of this ripper deal. Unfortunately, the miles were not enough for redemption of 2 tickets to our destination Narita. I thought I might as well transfer some from Citi Prestige and rung the Indonesian call centre. After about 8 tries, got hold of CSR and found the following things:
1) Garuda Indonesia would not allow transfer of points from Citi Prestige if it is issued in Australia. She gave me a list of 6 countries (Ind, Indonesia, Sin, Malaysia and some others) and they only have a tie up with Citi in these countries. (I thought I might as well ring Citi Australia to confirm this, but only if I could find available seats).
2) This redemption could only be awarded from Jakarta call centre
3) Availability: Ample availability from Mel-Jakarta (1 J and 1 F) both legs, but no availability whatsoever between Jakarta-Narita (both legs) and DPS - Japan (Both legs). This was for set of dates in Apr/May 2017
4) She was quite happy to hold/redeem the booking for the first leg. (had 38546 miles in account) - So could have been a great F/J redemption, but really needed to get to Japan

It is some what a moot point now that they have pulled the plug, but some info regarding transfer from Citi. Haven't rung Citi to confirm whether that is actually true though.