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Rex will compete head-to-head with Qantas on the Sydney-Canberra route from 19 April 2021, with the launch of Saab 340 flights. The regional airline also says it plans to open a new lounge at Canberra Airport later this year. Rex will initially serve the Sydney-Canberra route with seven daily return flights, using its Saab 340 … Continued
Jetstar is considering operating Boeing 787 Dreamliners on domestic routes as its Australian capacity returns to almost 100% of pre-covid levels – and even higher during peak periods. Jetstar is already back to running an average of 70-90% of pre-covid capacity on domestic flights within Australia this month, and expects to maintain this level of … Continued
Qantas has been awarded the federal government contract to operate regular flights from mainland Australia to Norfolk Island. Qantas will take over from Air New Zealand on the routes from Sydney and Brisbane to Norfolk Island for at least the next three months, and there is a possibility for the Qantas contract to be extended. … Continued
QantasLink will add three new seasonal routes to Cooma and Albury in NSW for this year’s winter ski season. The Qantas subsidiary will fly from Sydney and Brisbane to Cooma from 1 July until 26 September 2021. During the same period, QantasLink will also add flights from Brisbane to Albury, supplementing existing flights from Sydney … Continued
Rex will complement its newly-launched Boeing 737 flights between Sydney and Melbourne with new routes to Adelaide and Gold Coast from the end of March. Starting from 29 March 2021, Rex will fly twice per day direct from Melbourne to the Gold Coast using Boeing 737-800s. Tickets are on sale from $79 one-way in Economy, … Continued
The inaugural Regional Express (Rex) Boeing 737-800 passenger flight took off this morning, with flight ZL18 departing from Melbourne to Sydney at 7am. It marks the beginning of jet aircraft operations for Rex, whose business model since launching in 2002 had previously been to just fly small turboprop aircraft to country towns. Over the coming … Continued
Qantas says it now plans to resume international flights to most destinations from the end of October 2021, although it has so far only resumed selling tickets on 27 of its previous 37 international long-haul routes. Last month, Qantas – perhaps too optimistically – reopened international bookings from 1 July 2021. But the airline yesterday … Continued
Rex has announced that it will cut flights to five regional destinations, while adding more services on routes currently served by Qantas in response to what it’s calling “aggressive predatory moves by Qantas”. It has also called on the ACCC yet again to take “enforcement actions against Qantas”. But Qantas has hit back, calling the … Continued
Qantas and Virgin Australia have announced new domestic routes to Coffs Harbour, Byron Bay and the Sunshine Coast in time for the Easter school holidays. The airlines are also expanding capacity on existing routes to many Australian leisure destinations. New Qantas routes From 1 April 2021, Qantas will launch new flights operated by QantasLink on … Continued
Qantas will operate special flights from Brisbane and Sydney to Norfolk Island to assist Australians stranded by the sudden, temporary withdrawal of Air New Zealand services to the island. Four Qantas flights will operate between Brisbane and Norfolk Island over the coming days, with an additional one flight from Sydney to the Australian overseas territory. The … Continued
Update (22 January 2021): Emirates will reinstate flights to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane from next week. It’s now January 2021, and there are still tens of thousands of Australians stuck overseas. Unfortunately for those Aussies, returning to Australia has just become even harder with super-connector Emirates withdrawing flights to most Australian cities and the Australian … Continued
Qatar Airways has reinstated flights to Saudi Arabia after the embargo preventing Qatari airlines from entering the airspace of four countries was revoked. It reportedly follows months of mediation efforts by Kuwait and the United States. In 2017, the countries of Bahrain, Saudia Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) all cut diplomatic ties with … Continued