Today marks the start of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) northern summer scheduling period, an industry-wide changeover date when airlines adjust their schedules for the northern hemisphere summer season. (27 March also marks the start of daylight savings in Europe for 2022, which is why this otherwise arbitrary date is used for the changeover.) … Continued
New Zealand will reopen its border to Australian tourists next month, with quarantine-free travel from Australia resuming from 13 April 2022. Following this announcement, Qantas quickly announced an increase to services from Sydney to Auckland from the date of the border reopening. It will also resume daily Brisbane-Auckland, Melbourne-Auckland and Sydney-Christchurch flights from 13 April, … Continued
The first Jetstar flight from Melbourne to Bali in almost two years will take off this morning, taking almost 300 Australians to the Indonesian holiday destination. Flight JQ43 will take off from Melbourne at 9.55am this morning, with the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner arriving at 12.45pm local time. Many of the passengers on board would have … Continued
Singapore Airlines will resume regular flights from both Darwin and Cairns to Singapore from the end of March 2022. It brings the number of Australian destinations served by Singapore Airlines to seven. Singapore Airlines’ former regional subsidiary Silk Air served the Darwin-Singapore and Cairns-Singapore routes prior to COVID-19. Both routes were suspended early into the … Continued
Sunshine Coast Airport will be the biggest winner when Bonza Airlines launches low-cost domestic flights in mid-2022. This week, Bonza revealed the 25 point-to-point routes to and from 16 Australian airports that the airline will serve using its initial fleet of five Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets. Bonza’s route map will be further expanded when … Continued
From next month, Qatar Airways will increase its Brisbane-Doha flights from 3x weekly to daily. The Qatari airline will also switch the stopover for its Auckland-Doha flights from Brisbane to Adelaide, meaning there are more seats available overall for passengers travelling between Brisbane and Doha. But Qatar Airways is an exception to the current trend. … Continued
Apart from some rare exceptions like Japan, the majority of domestic flights in most countries are operated by narrowbody aircraft like the Boeing 737 or Airbus A320. These are perfectly fine for short hops, but flying on a widebody jet is always just a little bit nicer. In Economy, you’ll often have a bit more … Continued
Qantas will launch flights from Sydney to Broken Hill in far west NSW from April, challenging Rex on a route where the regional airline has held a monopoly for the past 18 years. Starting on 8 April 2022, Qantas will operate two weekly flights from Sydney to Broken Hill on Mondays and Fridays. The services … Continued
Virgin Australia has pushed back the resumption of direct flights between Sydney and Canberra – a route that it hasn’t served for almost two years. In early December 2021, Virgin announced that it would return to the Sydney-Canberra route in partnership with Link Airways from 30 January 2022. The flights would be marketed by Virgin … Continued
Qantas is scheduling daily flights from Los Angeles to Brisbane departing at 10.20am in the morning from next May, offering customers a unique daylight option when travelling westbound from the United States to Australia. The flights will be operated by Airbus A330-200s, which will have to be weight-restricted due to the length of these flights. … Continued
Qantas has delayed the restart of its flights to Chile, with all Sydney-Santiago flights now removed from sale until 31 October 2022. Earlier this month, Qantas had been selling seats on its QF27/28 services between Sydney and Santiago from late March 2022. But all Qantas flights on this route have now been “zeroed out” until … Continued
Redeeming frequent flyer points to get from Australia to South America has always been a bit of a challenge. But with all direct flights from Australia suspended since April 2020 due to COVID-19, getting to South America is now especially difficult. Direct flights from Australia to all other continents have now resumed, including Qantas flights … Continued
