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As well as increasing flights to North America, Asia and New Zealand, Qantas will launch new routes from Brisbane to Wellington and Honiara from October 2023.
Virgin Australia will launch its new Cairns-Tokyo route next month using 17-year old Boeing 737-700 aircraft due to a delay in the delivery of its new Boeing 737-8 MAX jets.
Qantas will change its daytime Airbus A330 service from Sydney to Apia, Samoa, to an overnight Boeing 737-800 flight out of Brisbane.
United Airlines is massively increasing service to Australia and NZ with increased frequencies and three new routes starting from October 2023, including Brisbane-Los Angeles.
Canberra Airport will once again receive international flights from 21 July 2023, with the launch of a new Fiji Airways service from Canberra to Nadi.
From 1 September 2023, Qatar Airways will end its Adelaide-Auckland tag flight and instead resume non-stop flights from Doha to Auckland.
Qantas Embraer E190 flights operated by Alliance Airlines are available to destinations including Adelaide, Townsville, Darwin, Brisbane and Canberra.
Ethiopian Airlines, a member of Star Alliance and Africa's largest airline, serves 23 fifth-freedom routes outside of Ethiopia.
Of the 311 planes that the Qantas Group recently ordered, just 12 will be wide-body aircraft. Single-aisle jets are the way of the future.
LATAM Airlines has pushed back its plans to resume non-stop Melbourne-Santiago flights by over a month until at least 1 September 2023.
There are a handful of busy international routes that are served by as many as six international carriers as fifth-freedom services.
There are now only 11 Boeing 747-400s left in regular passenger service, operated by Lufthansa, Asiana, Air China and Mahan Air.