Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia boost Auckland to Brisbane flights

Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia will provide their customers with an expanded schedule of flights on the Auckland, New Zealand to Brisbane, Australia route, with up to five extra flights per week delivering an additional 38,000 seats between April and October 2018. This means frequent flyer members will now be able to choose from up to 34 return services per week.

In addition, Virgin Australia will be re-timing its weekday Auckland-Brisbane service to provide a better evening schedule proposition for the alliance, with the choice of departure times of 4:00pm, 6:00pm and 7:30pm.

Meanwhile Air New Zealand is set to grow the number of seats available on the Wellington-Queenstown route by around 50% from April. The airline will operate an extra five A320 direct services a week between Wellington and Queenstown, the equivalent of 38,000 extra one-way seats compared with the previous year.

The five new services are in addition to the airline’s existing daily direct jet service and will operate between Thursday and Monday, taking the total number of jet services per week to 12.  In addition, a number of other Wellington-Queenstown services are operated by the airline’s ATR turboprop aircraft.