airline routes

Finnair has taken a leaf out of American Airlines' book, replacing flights with bus services on two short-haul routes to/from Helsinki. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/230512-aymay23xtpxtz

Fiji Airways is launching 2x weekly NAN-YVR flights from November using A330-200s. I can already see some Y award availability via QFF. Didn't find any J seats yet, but the airfares could be interesting...

It looks like Qantas will be flying from Sydney to Tonga every Thursday for the next 3 months, using A330s. https://matangitonga.to/2022/07/01/australia-s-qantas-start-weekly-flights-tonga Flights are QF335 SYD 09:30 - TBU 17:05 and QF336 TBU 18:35 - SYD 21:20. Tonga's international border is...

I think this is kinda cool. From November, Eurowings Discover will launch seasonal direct flights from Frankfurt to Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport (MQP), which is located near Nelspruit and the gateway to South Africa's Kruger National Park...

Bamboo Airways will start non-stop flights from Melbourne to Ho Chi Minh City from April 2022. Initially there will be 2x Boeing 787 flights per week, eventually increasing to four weekly flights. Melbourne-Hanoi flights will also be added...

Rex has won the QLD government contract in a competitive tender process to service the route from Brisbane to Roma and Charleville from 1 January 2022, for a period of 5 years. Rex will take over the route from QantasLink. Rex has so far retained all its other QLD government "milk run" routes...

Alan Joyce has just announced a new SYD-DEL route will begin on 6 December 2021. Flights will operate via Darwin outbound, and non-stop from DEL to SYD inbound using A330s. Flights will be 3x weekly initially, increasing to daily by the end of the year.

This comment from Alan Joyce in last week's earnings call caught my attention: https://news.alphastreet.com/qantas-airways-ltd-qan-q4-2021-earnings-call-transcript/ So, if for some reason Singapore isn't open by December but Taiwan and the UK is, who knows - perhaps we'll see a daily...

Qantas roars back to New Zealand with 122 flights a week and launches two new routes Qantas and Jetstar will operate up to 122 return flights per week across the Tasman when the quarantine-free bubble starts. Qantas will also launch two new routes into Queensland - Auckland to Cairns and the...

I noticed BITRE have just released their domestic airline activity for January. https://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/ongoing/domestic_airline_activity-monthly_publications The busiest route for the month was MEL-OOL. Notably MEL-SYD is still languishing at #13, although with the impact of...

It does appear they’ve been positioning these planes quite a lot lately. Has anyone been able to systematically find the routes that the 787 will be on? Or is this something that just pops up in a lucky dip style.

Rex has put out yet another media release today accusing Qantas of predatory behaviour in launching flights on various former Rex monopoly regional routes. Rex says that it has decided to keep operating on routes with new competition from QantasLink, even though they will be loss-making, and...

QantasLink is launching 3 new routes to CFS and BNK from 1 April, as well as upgrading some SYD-CFS flights from Dash 8s to Boeing 717s (with J seats sold) in April. The new routes are: MEL-CFS - daily Boeing 717 flights BNE-CFS - 4x weekly Q400 flights CBR-BNK - 2x weekly Q400 flights...

Looks like VA are back on the quick CBR-SYD route from 22 Feb. Just looking for flights to MEL and options via SYD are coming up. B737 being used. Only a couple of flights each day. And a VA email mentions CBR lounge being reopened soon, so I guess that'll be from 22 Feb as well.

Haven't seen this posted yet FlyPelican spreads wings to Port Macquarie | Newcastle Weekly One day a week, 30 minute flight. Seems like it would be difficult to get going. Only around 2.5 hrs to drive these days

I was just having a look at Virgin's policy for changes to domestic & international bookings during COVID-19. Interestingly, they are allowing free changes to trans-Tasman and international short-haul bookings except to Rarotonga, Tonga and Port Moresby. For flights to Rarotonga, Tonga or Port...

Some great news with an AA like integration on the cards and hopefully some new routes as well —- Qantas and Japan Airlines to tie-up, kick-start COVID revival Qantas has proposed a commercial joint venture with Japan Airlines that will see them co-ordinate schedules and airfares, and share...

Sydney to Canberra seaplane route to be examined after test flight next week | ABC Seems there's a bit of opposition to this news already, as petrol motors are banned on the lake for recreational fishing. Anybody know what time they'll be landing on Tuesday? I happen to be in Canberra, would...

Melburnians will soon be able to take a break in one of Western Australia’s top travel destinations, with Jetstar announcing it will commence direct flights to the Margaret River region from early next year. After the original planned launch in March 2020 was postponed due to border closures...

The first ever Qantas 787-9 flight to South Africa took place this week, with VH-ZND operating as QF63 SYD-JNB on Wednesday. The flight time was 13h 20m and looking at the flight path, EDTO/ETOPS doesn't seem to have been an issue. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/vh-znd#2602ef3f...