Australian flag carrier, Qantas will re-launch daily flights between Sydney and Beijing from January 25, 2017, providing Asia-bound travellers with services between the Chinese capital and Australia.
The new service will operate into Beijing Capital International Airport, using an airbus A330-200, with return flights timed to connect with Qantas’ extensive domestic and trans-Tasman network. It marks Qantas’ return to the route since 2009 and makes Beijing the national carrier’s third destination in China, including its existing daily return services to Shanghai, and 28 return services a week to Hong Kong.
The new Beijing-Sydney service is part of the expansion of Qantas’ joint venture partnership with China Eastern, which will also see three international codeshare routes between Australia and China being added under their strengthened agreement: Sydney-Hangzhou, Sydney-Kunming, and Brisbane-Shanghai. China Eastern will codeshare on Qantas’ new Beijing service.
“Australia is now at the top of the wish list for Chinese travellers thinking about where they want to go next. There are 21 million people in Beijing alone and from the start of next year they will be just one Qantas flight away. The potential is tremendous,” says Qantas Group chief executive Alan Joyce.
The new Sydney-Beijing route represents an 18 per cent increase in Qantas’ total capacity into China and a seven percent increase in its total capacity into Asia. Over the past 12 months, Qantas has added flights to Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia to meet growing demand in the region. www.qantas.com
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