Qantas Group carriers reducing Asia and regional flights into May

Qantas and Jetstar are cutting back flights to Asia and regional destinations for the next 3 months as demand declines amid the coronavirus outbreak. Flights to China, Hong Kong and Singapore will be affected. The overall reduction of around 16% will last “until at least the end of May”, says Qantas. The airline had been planning to suspend its Sydney-Shanghai route only until the end of March, but will now further defer resumption of the service. On the Melbourne-Singapore route, capacity will be reduced by around 250 seats per flight as the airline deploys Boeing 787s to replace Airbus A380s. Frequencies to Hong Kong will be cut from 4 times per day to 16 times per week. Flights between Australia and New Zealand will be reduced 6%. <br/>