Garuda Indonesia (GA, Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta) will join Skyteam on March 5, 2014, thereby becoming the alliance's twentieth member and its second from South East Asia. In his statement, Michael Wisbrun, SkyTeam’s managing director said: “Garuda is on target to meet all the membership criteria required by SkyTeam, including implementing a new IT platform and customer-focused initiatives. We look forward to welcoming the airline on 5 March next year.” Skyteam's Asian presence includes China Airlines (CI, Taipei Taoyuan), China Eastern Airlines (MU, Shanghai Hongqiao), China Southern Airlines (CZ, Guangzhou), Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon), Vietnam Airlines (VN, Hanoi Noi Bai International) and Xiamen Airlines (MF, Xiamen).