Cairns Airport

By David Casey
A total of 15 routes have been put on sale, including 11 from its Sunshine Coast base.
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By Adrian Schofield
The airline planned the Haneda route pre-pandemic but has now changed the point of origin in Australia.
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By Aaron Karp
Qantas has restarted service between Brisbane in Australia and Tokyo as it continues to restore flying to Japan.
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By David Casey
The Australian carrier will debut the aircraft between Melbourne and Cairns later this month.
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By David Casey
The airline will initially fly from Melbourne three times per week.
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By Aaron Karp
The airline is dropping nine domestic routes and one international service.
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By David Casey
Qantas said it plans to cancel the launch of a Cairns-Tokyo route following the decision.
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By David Casey
Australia’s national airline is adding more flights from the country’s capital.
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By Nigel Mayes
Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Virgin Atlantic’s move into the UK-Pakistan market; Jetstar’s resumption of Sunshine Coast-Adelaide flights; and the launch of a new Widerøe route from Bergen.
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By David Casey
Qantas has warned that international routes are unlikely to resume before mid-2021 and urged a more flexible approach to Australian state border restrictions in order to boost domestic travel.
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By David Casey
Following the confirmation that Tigerair Australia will cease operations, Routes looks at the Virgin Australia low-cost subsidiary’s place in the market prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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By David Casey
Air New Zealand’s new CEO Greg Foran has warned that the airline does not expect a return to long-haul flying “of any note” until next year.
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By David Casey
Virgin Australia is reducing domestic capacity by 90% and temporarily grounding 125 aircraft. Low-cost subsidiary Tigerair Australia has also suspended flights.
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By David Casey
Routes Asia 2018, the only route development forum for the Asia-Pacific region, is taking place in Brisbane from 18-20 March 2018. Routesonline takes a look at some of the key statistics shaping the market.
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By Nigel Mayes
This week: An unusual move by LOT, China Southern grows in Australia, another US link for Edelweiss.
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By Routes News
Now a fully owned subsidiary of Virgin Australia, Tigerair Australia has recently undergone a major transformation – even ‘changing its stripes’ – in a bid to enhance its customer service and market fit.
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By Poppy Marello
The airline, which is a subsidiary of China’s HNA Group, will commence flights to both Cairns and the Gold Coast on January 8, 2016 on a triangular route which will operate from Hong Kong to the Gold Coast, continuing onto Cairns.
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By Poppy Marello
Regional Express (Rex) has announced the introduction increased flights between Cairns and Townsville from July.
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By Poppy Marello
Flag carrier, Philippine Airlines has announced it will launch services to Auckland from Manila later this year, marking the first time the airline has ever operated in New Zealand.
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By Richard Maslen
The airline, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, launched flights to Australia in March 2012 with the introduction of flights to Darwin supporting the strategy of its parent airline and allowing the group to grow its network in the country to six destinations: Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The introduction of the Cairns route next year is an extension of this strategy.
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By Richard Maslen
Low-cost carrier, Jetstar Airways has announced plans to start a Melbourne–Osaka wide-body service from the end of this month. The new Melbourne -
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By Richard Maslen
Asian low-cost carrier Tigerair is boosting its Australian fleet and opening a base in the Queensland capital, Brisbane. The carrier will station two
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By Richard Maslen
Virgin Australia has confirmed it will launch a new direct domestic service between Cairns and Weipa after the Newman Government’s decision to
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