Article: Daytime Flights from Asia to Australia

[AIRwin]

MNL-PER:

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Post in thread 'Jetstar wants to fly to the Philippines'

Jul 15, 2025

Flights go on sale at midday.

PER-MNL commences 27 November.
BNE-CEB commences 3 December.

Source: https://newsroom.jetstar.com/jetsta...ne-and-perth-with-flights-available-from-188/

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[AIRwin]

Seasonal CAN-BNE on CZ:

China Southern doubles down on Brisbane

China Southern Airlines has announced a major expansion of its services from Guangzhou to Brisbane, moving to double daily flights during the peak 2025/26 summer travel season. The boost marks the highest-ever frequency by the airline since it commenced operations in Brisbane in 2010, a fitting...

newsroom.bne.com.au

 

[Peter Riddell]

Give me a daytime flight anytime. I have never been able to sleep much at all on 'redeye' flights. Plus, flights from Singapore etc. are too short to get a proper night's rest - especially if they insist on waking you 90 mins before arrival.

I came here to say the exact thing. Far prefer to arrive here in the evening, have a light dinner, a shower and into bed for a decent night's sleep. No jetlag.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Either SQ SIN-> MEL/somedays ADL or trek via QF HND -> SYD flight routing.

 

[AIRwin]

Seasonal CAN-BNE on CZ:

China Southern doubles down on Brisbane

China Southern Airlines has announced a major expansion of its services from Guangzhou to Brisbane, moving to double daily flights during the peak 2025/26 summer travel season. The boost marks the highest-ever frequency by the airline since it commenced operations in Brisbane in 2010, a fitting...

newsroom.bne.com.au

Daytime flights year round:

China Southern doubles flights to Brisbane year-round

China Southern Airlines has ramped up its services to Brisbane Airport, moving to twice-daily flights year-round from 30 March 2026. The expanded schedule will bring more than 114,000 extra seats into Brisbane every year, operating on the next-generation Airbus A350 which offers fuel efficiency...

newsroom.bne.com.au

 

[jase05]

I had t seen it mentioned here but GA have a seasonal DPS-MEL daytime flight during December and January on Sunday and Monday.
Departs DPS at 0820 and arrives into MEL at 1700.
Pretty decent option and pity it wasn’t year round.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

And that GA is not in an alliance. of any use to Aussies, ie, Skyteam.
So you can earn by paying with a points earning credit/debit card, but for SC earn with either of the 2 Aus major airlines, none by flying GA.
SQ would still be the best, as in most subclasses, there is an earn in VFF.

 

[am0985]

I had t seen it mentioned here but GA have a seasonal DPS-MEL daytime flight during December and January on Sunday and Monday.
Departs DPS at 0820 and arrives into MEL at 1700.
Pretty decent option and pity it wasn’t year round.

MEL - DPS is usually bookable with 40k Qatar/BA Avios in J. Not sure about the daytime services but availability is usually good generally. A330 J, pretty good service.

 

[jase05]

MEL - DPS is usually bookable with 40k Qatar/BA Avios in J. Not sure about the daytime services but availability is usually good generally. A330 J, pretty good service.

I generally book GA flights with VS points but we won’t come home with them or anyone else overnight anymore so if this service was available year round I’d probably go for it but as a rule we normally head to Bali around May to October

 

[am0985]

I generally book GA flights with VS points but we won’t come home with them or anyone else overnight anymore so if this service was available year round I’d probably go for it but as a rule we normally head to Bali around May to October

Last time I did GA on the way there in J and booked the daytime Virgin Australia flight back in economy.

Flight times for VA are much better in mid afternoon, leaving at DPS at 0820 means a pretty early start which to me offsets some of the benefit!