Garuda Indonesia began its first commercial services during the independence campaign under the name "Indonesian Airways" using a DC3 aircraft named "Seulawah" (Gold Mountain) donated by the people of Aceh. Since then, through "Seulawah" and several other aircrafts, Garuda has served the country and played vital role in Indonesian airline service. Garuda Indonesia commitment to total quality improvement in the area of service, safety, on-time departures and load factors has brought the company to a period of dynamic and successful change in providing safe, comfortable and reliable air transportation services. The change has successfully improve Garuda Indonesia performance of positive cash flow and operating profit tendency.