Qantas flights to Palau

[Mattg]

Looks like today’s ROR-BNE service is making a stop in CNS.

 

[Saab34]

Looks like storms across SEQ on each TAF so might be a fuel and alternate issue if they are using MCY or OOL.

Not that great in Sydney either or further up the QLD coast. Melbourne looks good though

Might be some interesting diversions later on today.

 

[Melburnian1]

I suppose the question is - is Palau worth visiting? Enough to do for a week? Accommodation, for us, is expensive. Is it just because of low supply and high demand? We'll soon have direct access to the Cookies, yes, with that airline that those of us without limitless budgets fly. We love the Cookies. Comparable experience if you've been?

Interestingly, in FY 2008, almost 30,000 Japanese and 23,000 Taiwanese visited Palau.

By FY 2024, this respectively had fallen to under 7,000 and under 13,000.

South Korean arrivals have dropped from above 14,00 to just 860 over the same 16 year period.

In contrast, mainland communist China arrivals have increased from 600 to almost 22,000.

USA and Canada are lumped together, oddly: arrivals have risen but slowly, from above 7,500 to almost 11,000.

Australian visitor numbers are small but the QFi weekly flights will help to record a large rise off a very small base.

I'm guessing the other nations' performance has much to do with whether nonstop or direct flights were cancelled or commenced.

I like snorkelling but Palau is as pointed out an expensive destination. That the mainland Chinese are arriving in numbers may be pushing up accommodation rates per night.

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

I like snorkelling but Palau is as pointed out an expensive destination. That the mainland Chinese are arriving in numbers may be pushing up accommodation rates per night.

Agree -- and with the number of Chinese travellers to Japan massive and suddenly declining, they'll be looking elsewhere.

Wish I'd been able to tag on to Palau to the end of my Island Hopper a few years ago but alas was not meant to be. I'd love to visit but just can't see myself making the effort to visit just Palau in the near future. Someday.