Qantas increases services

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)