Qantas will launch non-stop flights from Melbourne to Honolulu from 1 May 2025, flying three times per week using Airbus A330-200s. From the same date, Jetstar will end its twice-weekly JQ1/2 service on the same route.

Flights went on sale today, with sale fares from $1,049 return in Economy available until 9 September 2024.

The new Qantas Melbourne-Honolulu flights will operate to the following schedule:

• QF105 Melbourne 17:05 – Honolulu 07:40
• QF106 Honolulu 09:40 – Melbourne 17:15 (+1 day)

The travel time will be 10 hours and 35 minutes on the outbound journey, with the return trip taking an hour longer due to the headwinds when flying west across the Pacific Ocean.

Qantas and Jetstar will both continue to fly between Sydney and Honolulu.

Earlier this year, Qantas upgraded its Sydney-Honolulu flight from an Airbus A330-300 to a Boeing 787-9. The Boeing 787 is a slightly larger plane but Qantas has installed fewer seats on it than the A330. That’s because the Qantas 787 features Premium Economy seating, which the Airbus A330 does not have, and also has a lot more Business seats.

Qantas will use internationally-configured Airbus A330-200s for the Melbourne-Honolulu flights, which have 27 lie-flat Business seats. All seats in Economy and Business Class have in-flight entertainment screens.

At this stage, we haven’t yet found any Classic Reward availability on Qantas’ Melbourne-Hawaii flights. But it’s still early days as the flights only went on sale today. Qantas has advertised that customers can book Classic Plus reward seats, but these just take the commercial airfare price and convert it into points.

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