Jetstar Asia to shutdown on 31 July 2025

[SYD]

As you probably already know Cairns is currently being used a hub to Japan for JQ with flights to Tokyo and Osaka. This serves a really great purpose for those that want a LCC to Japan and is great for Japanese tourists that want to visit far north Queensland.

Yes, a legacy of the rebooted Australian Airlines (AO) days.

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[The-Aviator]

If it is showing sold out and immediately previously had discounted fares available, there is a possibility of cancellation....

Appears I've lucked out! They have started selling seats again and the latest travel alert suggests the schedule is basically locked in at this stage for everyone who hasn't heard directly from the airline.

 

[JohnK]

My mother within the last 12 months booked one of these QF>JQ flights to get to BKK as she didn't want to transit SYD and didn't realise what a shambles it would be transiting SIN. She vowed never again. Turns out she gets her wish.

My wife had one of these transfers going back to Thailand (last minute trip) a few years ago and it wasn't too difficult for her as she doesn't fly without me often.

I've lost count of the number of times I've used SIN T4 or even KLIA2. The transfers are OK and nothing like a DMK-BKK or OOL-BNE transfer.

 

[kevrosmith]

Yes, a legacy of the rebooted Australian Airlines (AO) days.

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The Tokyo route is more reminiscent of the direct QF services to Tokyo, before AO (re-)appeared. There was (at least) two daily services, one of which flew onto BNE (with Domestic on-carriage pax) and one to SYD. Can’t remember the flight numbers… but I’ll have them somewhere on my laptop to report another day.

 

[dajop]

I wouldn’t be surprised to see more long, thin JQ options from Oz non-stop to Asia.

Is the more adventurous part of the Australian market (i.e. those that travel to more than just Bali, Bangkok & coughet) big enough to support more non-stops? I guess Japan is quite popular. Places like KBV (which sees a range of seasonal/charter services from Europe) , CEB, KLO, DAD , CXR, and LOP come to mind.

But not sure if a more likely "long thin route" would be MCY-DPS. Or CBR-DPS. Or for that matter HBA-DPS.

 

[SYD]

Is the more adventurous part of the Australian market (i.e. those that travel to more than just Bali, Bangkok & coughet) big enough to support more non-stops? I guess Japan is quite popular. Places like KBV (which sees a range of seasonal/charter services from Europe) , CEB, KLO, DAD , CXR, and LOP come to mind.


But not sure if a more likely "long thin route" would be MCY-DPS. Or CBR-DPS. Or for that matter HBA-DPS.

QF/JQ have the data and no doubt will announce routes (if any) in due course.

Just don’t expect lie flat seats anytime soon - well, never. Lucky to see recliner J if those routes are left to JQ narrow body.