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QantasLink
QantasLink is Australia’s premier regional airline,
serving 52 destinations with 46 aircraft and
approximately 1,750 flights each week.
QantasLink has grown capacity by an average of
13 per cent each year for the past three years.
The QantasLink fleet is undergoing major
renewal, with the retirement of all Dash 8-100
aircraft and the introduction of the new
generation Bombardier Q400. In 2008/09,
QantasLink added capacity to key regional
routes in Queensland, New South Wales,
Victoria and Tasmania.
Five new Q400 aircraft entered the
QantasLink fleet during the year, with a further
seven to be delivered by January 2010. This will
bring the total number of Q400s to 21, or 40
per cent of the fleet, an investment of more than
$650 million since 2006.
Additional Q400 capacity was deployed in
Albury, Coffs Harbour, Devonport, Gladstone,
Launceston, Port Macquarie, Rockhampton
and Tamworth.
New Q400 services were introduced on
the Townsville-Cloncurry-Mount Isa route in
March 2009.
The QantasLink fleet of B717 aircraft
continues to provide essential capacity in
Western and Central Australia and North
Queensland, servicing mining communities,
coastal and tourist destinations. Adelaide-
Kalgoorlie B717 services were introduced in
March 2009.
QantasLink plays a
positive and active role
in Australia’s regional
and rural communities.
It won the prestigious
2008 National Breast
Cancer Foundation
Patron’s Award for
Innovation for its Pink
Link promotion,
including painting a
Q400 pink and raising
more than $520,000 for
breast cancer research
at Pink Link days around
regional Australia.
26 Qantas Annual Report 2009