Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Australia Increase Domestic Flying As Restrictions Ease
Qantas, Jetstar and Virgin Australia Increase Domestic Flying as Restrictions Ease
As travel restrictions start to ease across the country, Qantas Jetstar and Virgin will increase their domestic and regional flying in the coming months.
Qantas and Jetstar changes
Qantas and Jetstar’s additional services will see capacity increase from 5 per cent of pre-Coronavirus levels, to 15 per cent by the end of June. This equates to more than 300 more return flights per week.
Additional flights will likely operate during July depending on travel demand and eased restrictions of state borders, with the ability to increase to up to 40 per cent of the Group’s pre-crisis domestic capacity by the end of July.
Details of the additional flights include: • More services on capital city routes particularly Melbourne-Sydney and a number of routes to-and-from Canberra. • Increased intra-state flights for Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and South Australia. Broome, Cairns and Rockhampton to see a significant boost in weekly flights. • Flights will resume on eight routes not currently being operated. • Qantas to commence flights from Sydney to Byron Bay (Ballina), after the route launch was postponed due to the Coronavirus. (A state by state breakdown of the Group’s domestic and regional schedule can be viewed here)
Virgin changes
Virgin Australia are planning to return popular routes such as Sydney-Perth, Brisbane-Perth, Brisbane-Canberra and Brisbane-Adelaide by early July.
“By early July, we will have gradually added approximately 30,000 seats across 320 flights per week to our schedule - more than doubling our capacity and providing more flexibility for guests,” says Virgin Australia Group Chief Commercial Officer John MacLeod.
View planned domestic flight map for Virgin Australia
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