Why Qantas is expanding in New Zealand
Qantas is boosting services across the Tasman, continuing strong growth over the past 18 months as it moves through a NZ$2.24b-plus transformation programme. The airline, which celebrates its 96th birthday today, is starting a new Christchurch-Melbourne service on December 4, in the past month has increased services from Brisbane to the southern city from three to daily. It will also use a larger plane to fly from Sydney to Auckland during the summer peak, moving up from a Boeing 737 to an A330. Qantas has flown here for the past 76 years and the airline's CE of international and freight, Gareth Evans, said it had increased its transtasman capacity by 10% to meet growing demand during the past 12 to 18 months. Evans described forward bookings on the Christchurch-Melbourne service as "unbelievable - It really is exceeding expectations". The airline now flew 11 routes between the two countries and he told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event that New Zealand was a key partner in its global network. It had been able to increase services by making better use of aircraft, rather than expanding the size of the fleet which serves New Zealand.<br/>
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Why Qantas is expanding in New Zealand
Qantas is boosting services across the Tasman, continuing strong growth over the past 18 months as it moves through a NZ$2.24b-plus transformation programme. The airline, which celebrates its 96th birthday today, is starting a new Christchurch-Melbourne service on December 4, in the past month has increased services from Brisbane to the southern city from three to daily. It will also use a larger plane to fly from Sydney to Auckland during the summer peak, moving up from a Boeing 737 to an A330. Qantas has flown here for the past 76 years and the airline's CE of international and freight, Gareth Evans, said it had increased its transtasman capacity by 10% to meet growing demand during the past 12 to 18 months. Evans described forward bookings on the Christchurch-Melbourne service as "unbelievable - It really is exceeding expectations". The airline now flew 11 routes between the two countries and he told a Trans-Tasman Business Circle event that New Zealand was a key partner in its global network. It had been able to increase services by making better use of aircraft, rather than expanding the size of the fleet which serves New Zealand.<br/>
