Tourism enhance: Qantas takes off for Port Vila, Vanuatu from Brisbane

The Flying Kangaroo has taken off from Brisbane to Port Vila, Vanuatu, for the primary time in Qantas‘ historical past.

The inaugural service, QF159, was at full capability in the present day with holidaymakers and enterprise travellers making the close to 3-hour journey to one of many Pacific’s hidden gems.

“We’re thrilled to increase our community with the introduction of direct flights between Brisbane and Port Vila,” stated Qantas Group CEO Worldwide, Cam Wallace. “This new route will keep connectivity between Australia and the South Pacific, opening new alternatives for leisure and enterprise journey to the area.

“With its lush landscapes and crystal blue waters, Vanuatu is a really outstanding vacation spot and we’re proud to supply our clients extra methods to expertise its pure magnificence.”

The brand new route gives three direct flights per week from the Sunshine State, and from 12 December 2024, Jetstar may also supply as much as 4 weekly flights between Sydney and Port Vila.

Throughout each airways this may create greater than 150,000 new seats every year between Australia and Vanuatu and making it simpler than ever for Australians to expertise the seashores, wealthy tradition, and distinctive adventures that Vanuatu has to supply.

The brand new flights will promote tourism between Australia and Vanuatu, strengthening financial ties and offering a lift to the native economic system and tourism economic system of the broader Pacific area, encouraging ongoing Australian visitation to the island capital.

Port Vila is without doubt one of the Flying Kangaroo’s 4 new worldwide routes from the Queensland capital that it has launched inside 12 months.

The inaugural service follows the launch of Brisbane to Wellington and Honiara in October 2023 and the upcoming launch of Brisbane to Manila in late-October 2024, which is able to add greater than 100,000 seats between Australia and the Philippines every year.