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16
Qantas offers almost 600 international services a week
to 83 destinations in 40 countries and has an extensive
domestic network with more than 2,350 weekly services to
20 destinations in Australia.
NETWORK HIGHLIGHTS – INTERNATIONAL
x
China: In December 2004, Qantas began three weekly
services to Shanghai and announced that a fourth service
would commence in November 2005. Qantas will offer
daily non-stop services to China from January 2006 with
the start of three weekly services to a second destination
– Beijing, home of the 2008 Olympic Games. Within
two years, Qantas expects to offer daily services to
both Beijing and Shanghai in response to the growing
trade relationship between Australia and China and
increasing demand for leisure travel in both directions.
Travel between China and Australia has increased more
than 40 per cent in the past three years and is expected
to grow a further 20 per cent in the next 12 months. In
addition, the Qantas Group operates 31 services each
week between Australia and Hong Kong which continues
to be an important destination in its own right as well as
a gateway for through traffic from mainland China.
x India: Qantas began three weekly services between
Sydney and Mumbai in September 2004. Travel between
Australia and India is on the rise with the number of
Indians travelling to Australia expected to grow about
15 per cent per annum until 2010. The growing trade
relationship is seeing an increasing demand for business
travel with leisure travel also increasing.
x
London via Hong Kong: The start of three weekly services
from Sydney to London via Hong Kong in November
2004 further boosted capacity on the highly-competitive
Kangaroo Route. A fourth weekly service will be added in
November 2005, bringing the number of services between
Australia and the UK to 28. Qantas has approval to
operate a further three services to the UK via Hong Kong
from April 2006 and offer daily services on the route.
x USA: Non-stop services between Melbourne and Los
Angeles increased to eight in November 2004 and nine
in February 2005, with a fourth weekly Brisbane to
Los Angeles service added in July 2005. From March
2006, Qantas will add three non-stop services per week
between Sydney and San Francisco. This will bring the
total number of Qantas return services to mainland USA
to a record 39 services per week – 32 of which are non-
stop services.
x South Africa: In June 2005, it was announced that a fifth
Sydney-Johannesburg service would operate year-round
from December 2005, building on what has previously
been a supplementary service over the December/January
holiday period.
x Queenstown: Services have traditionally been added
for the New Zealand ski season but will become a
permanent operation between Sydney and Queenstown
from October 2005 to accommodate the growing
interest in Queenstown as a year-round holiday
destination for Australians.
x Adelaide-Auckland: In December 2004, Qantas began
three weekly services between these cities, providing
the only non-stop flight. New Zealand is an important
market, with Qantas offering more than 200 trans-
Tasman services each week.
Spirit of AustraliaSpirit of Australia
Flying Businesses
Qantas mainlinex
747-400 services to London via Hong Kong have boosted capacity
on the Kangaroo Route