Qantas and Jetstar to start ramping up New Zealand flights

New Zealand’s new border reopening date for Australian tourists will see Qantas and Jetstar start to ramp up flights across the Tasman. From April 13, the airlines will operate up to 30 return flights a week across five trans-Tasman routes, up from the two return Qantas flights currently being operated. Qantas will fly daily from Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney to Auckland and Sydney to Christchurch, using a mix of its Boeing 737s and wide-body Airbus A330 aircraft. Meanwhile, Jetstar, which had suspended all trans-Tasman flights, will resume three weekly flights from the Gold Coast to Auckland using its Airbus A320 aircraft. Qantas Group is taking a far more gradual approach with this border reopening plan than when the trans-Tasman bubble was launched in April 2021. At that time, Qantas and Jetstar announced they would be initially operating up to 122 return flights a week on 15 routes, including two new Qantas routes from the Gold Coast and Cairns to Auckland.<br/>