Qantas boosts RI services

Qantas boosts RI services

SYDNEY (AFP): Australian flag-carrier Qantas Airways Ltd. announced plans yesterday to boost its services to Indonesia with extra flights from Darwin, Perth and Sydney from October.

The airline, which currently operates flights from Sydney to Jakarta on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, said it would add a fourth direct Boeing 767 service from Sydney to Jakarta on Monday of each week.

It will also begin three Boeing 767 flights from Perth to Bali from Oct. 30, along with a third service from Darwin to Bali starting Nov. 2. The new Perth flights would replace two Boeing 747 services.

Rival airline Ansett Australia Ltd. operates one flight a week to Bali from Melbourne and Sydney and two each week from Perth and Darwin.

Ansett launched its flights to Bali last September and recently announced plans for flights to Hong Kong and Osaka in Japan.