Qantas increases services

JAKARTA (JP): The Australian national air carrier, Qantas Airways, will start flying additional routes today, linking Jakarta and Brisbane every Wednesday and Saturday, using Boeing B-767 aircraft.

The airline will also start servicing nonstop flights between Melbourne and Jakarta, two times per week starting tomorrow. The service will be every Tuesday and Sunday.

The new routes will increase Qantas' nonstop services to Indonesia to 25 times a week, up from 21 previously.

Qantas recently increased its Jakarta to Singapore routes from five, to seven times per week, in anticipation of the increasing commercial and travel markets opening in the Asia-Pacific region.

In 1995, 135,000 Indonesians traveled to Australia, a 27 percent increase from a year ago. The Australian Tourist Commission projects some 300,000 Indonesians will visit the kangaroo country in the year 2000, the same year Sydney will host the Olympic games. (icn)