Beijing Capital Airlines to fly to MEL

[Foreigner]

Flights to Melbourne from Qingdao beginning September :

Beijing Capital Airlines set to fly into Melbourne - Chinadaily.com.cn

 

[TomVexille]

Interesting seeing how they currently seem to have only 2 a332s at the moment with one a333 to be delivered according to Wikipedia

 

[seanpodge]

BCA is part of the Hainan Airlines group, so maybe they'll get a plane off of them to help out. The paint job looks pretty much the same anyway.

More interesting is the expansion of the number of cities in China that one can fly to from Australia. They've even found one north of Beijing, even if it is only a tag flight.

 

[Melburnian1]

While it may gradually change, most of the expansion of flights ex and to mainland Chinese cities seems to be to SYD rather than to MEL. At last count if I recall there were six mainland Chinese carriers flying to Sydney (Australia).

 

[CaviAck]

Will be interesting to see if there's going to be any VA codeshares.

 

[soorox]

While it may gradually change, most of the expansion of flights ex and to mainland Chinese cities seems to be to SYD rather than to MEL. At last count if I recall there were six mainland Chinese carriers flying to Sydney (Australia).

Air China
Melbourne - Beijing
Melbourne - Shanghai
Melbourne - Shenzhen
Sydney - Beijing
Sydney - Shanghai
Sydney - Chengdu

Beijing Capital Airlines
Melbourne - Qingdao - Shenyang

Xiamen Air
Melbourne - Xiamen
Sydney - Xiamen
Sydney - Fuzhou

Hainan Airlines
Sydney - Xi'an
Sydney - Changsha

China Southern Airlines
Melbourne - Guangzhou
Sydney - Guangzhou
Sydney - Shenzhen

Sichuan Airlines
Melbourne - Chengdu
Sydney - Chongqing

China Eastern Airlines
Melbourne - Shanghai
Sydney - Shanghai
Sydney - Nanjing - Beijing

Shanghai Airlines (operating for China Eastern)
Melbourne - Shanghai

MEL is connected to 8 Mainland cities whilst SYD is connected to 11 cities cities, not including the ones to be confirmed. To put it into perspective, BNE is only connected to 2 cities, CNS is connected to 2 seasonally and PER and OOL is only connected to 1 city. MEL and SYD are definitely dominating the Australia - Mainland China market by the sheer size of destinations, the number of flights and airlines.

 

[JohnK]

MEL is connected to 8 Mainland cities whilst SYD is connected to 11 cities cities, not including the ones to be confirmed. To put it into perspective, BNE is only connected to 2 cities, CNS is connected to 2 seasonally and PER and OOL is only connected to 1 city. MEL and SYD are definitely dominating the Australia - Mainland China market by the sheer size of destinations, the number of flights and airlines.

Even the Chinese airlines are ignoring ADL?

 

[kamchatsky]

Even the Chinese airlines are ignoring ADL?

Well CX flies to ADL directly. People can transit at HKG to most Chinese cities anyway via Ka.

 

[TomVexille]

Even the Chinese airlines are ignoring ADL?

CZ recently announced an ADL

 

[JohnK]

Well CX flies to ADL directly. People can transit at HKG to most Chinese cities anyway via Ka.

Just going off list above.

And I think most people, myself included, don't consider CX a Chinese airline. I would include Eva air in the same statement.

 

[AIRwin]

TAO flights suspended for 2 months:

Beijing Capital Airlines 3Q25 Australia Service Changes — AeroRoutes

Published at 0900GMT 18MAR25 Beijing Capital Airlines earlier this year filed service changes to Australia, as the carrier suspends service to/from Qingdao in the third quarter of 2025. Qingdao – Melbourne 01JUL25 – 31AUG25 2 weekly service suspended Qingdao – Sydney 01JUL25 – 31AUG25 2 w

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