Qantas ups London frequencies for winter
Qantas is to expand European operations by increasing services from London to Australia from 21 to 27 flights a week.
The extra capacity will be added for the winter schedule starting on 31 October, subject to approval by the International Air Services Commission in Australia.
The airline plans to run three new Perth-Singapore-London flights and three new Sydney-Hong Kong-London services.
“These additional services will utilise new landing and take-off slots at Heathrow that we purchased earlier this year,” said Qantas executive general manager John Borghetti.
“Under the new schedule, Qantas will operate 17 services to London via Singapore, seven via Bangkok and three via Hong Kong.
“Together with new services to Mumbai and Shanghai that will begin later this year, Qantas is growing its international operations.”
The airline has also struck a codeshare deal with Air France allowing daily Paris-Australia flights via Singapore.
Passengers will fly with Qantas between Australia and Singapore and then connect to Air France flights between Singapore and Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport.
Mr Borghetti said: “Qantas is restricted to operating only three flights to Paris a week under the bilateral agreement between Australia and France.
“This limited schedule has made it difficult to achieve profitability on the route and the losses we are incurring are simply not sustainable.
“The new relationship with Air France will allow us to offer daily codeshare services from Australia to Paris and therefore greater choice and flexibility for customers.”
Qantas will continue to operate daily flights to Frankfurt via Singapore.
Report by Phil Davies
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