Starlux starting TPE-SYD-AKL from late March 2027

[leesionn]

Starlux Plans Sydney / Auckland late-March 2027 Debut — AeroRoutes

Published at 1745PCT 10NOV26 / 0045GMT 11NOV26 Starlux Airlines as of Tuesday (10NOV26) filed operational schedule for its planned service to Australia and New Zealand, where the airline plans to launch Taipei Taoyuan – Sydney – Auckland route on 23MAR27. Initially scheduled 4 times weekly, serv

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According to aeroroutes (link above), Starlux will start with a 4x/week service from TPE-SYD-AKL from 23 March 2027. This will increase to 1 daily from 1 May 2027, using their A330neo for all flights.

JX183 will depart TPE at 8:50pm and arrive in SYD at 8:10am. This will then go onto AKL at 11:05am, arriving at 4:10pm.

JX184 will depart AKL at 5:30pm and arrive in SYD at 7:05pm. This will then go onto TPE at 8:35pm, arriving at 4:15am.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Great… pax now have a choice when flying to TPE! Either 410am arrival on CI, or 415am on JX

 

[Melburnian1]

Presumably we can book SYD-AKL-SYD on this airline? Quite attractive timings.

It has a few excellent reviews on YouTube, although Sydney to NZ is only a short hop.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Presumably we can book SYD-AKL-SYD on this airline? Quite attractive timings.

It has a few excellent reviews on YouTube, although Sydney to NZ is only a short hop.

It’s been reported as a fifth-freedom in another thread.

I think starlux has pretty good reviews even for their short sectors like TPE-HKG.

 

[aspro2]

Great… pax now have a choice when flying to TPE! Either 410am arrival on CI, or 415am on JX

And that's assuming they don't run early. I just *loved* arriving in TPE at 03:30 once. That is a long, long, long wait for the world to come alive, transit connections to commence, etc.

 

[kamchatsky]

I don’t get it. Why they don’t leave SYD at say 10pm, arriving at TPE at 5:45am? Would have been better for most passengers.

 

[aspro2]

I don’t get it. Why they don’t leave SYD at say 10pm, arriving at TPE at 5:45am? Would have been better for most passengers.

Because they have connection waves. Massive arrivals very early feed into massive departures after sunrise .

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Even the Taiwanese I know are all frustrated with the 4am arrivals!!! Maybe suitable for connections, but plenty OD traffic not too happy!

 

[OZDUCK]

Because they have connection waves. Massive arrivals very early feed into massive departures after sunrise .

We flew out of Taipei in 2024 just after sunrise and it was very, very busy.