News in Brief: Thursday November 14

News in Brief: Thursday November 14
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Jetstar has operated its first commercial 787 Dreamliner service with flight JQ432 taking off from Melbourne to the Gold Coast yesterday.

Over the next four weeks, the 787 will operate daily return services between Melbourne and Cairns and six weekly return services between Melbourne and the Gold Coast before the first international flight takes off for Bali on December 18.

Jetstar expects to have three 787s in operation by early next year.

 

The Globus family of brands has appointed Mark Windsor to the newly created position of groups business development manager for Victoria.

He has previously worked at TUI Marine, Grand Pacific Tours, Marriner Group, Tourism Tasmania, i-Xplore Travel Group and Accor Asia Pacific.

 

 

China Southern Airlin?es is preparing for the start of new daily services between its Guangzhou hub and Brisbane with the launch of new business class fares to Paris priced from $5132.

“This is the first time we are going daily out of Brisbane so we are offering very competitive fares to attract more Queensland customers to China and the other destinations we fly to around the world on our popular Canton Route,” general manager Brisbane Edward Wang said.

The new daily service is expected to add an extra 648 seats a week into Brisbane, providing a boost to the local tourism industry.

 

Air New Zealand has reiterated that it has no intention of launching a takeover bid for alliance partner Virgin Australia.

Chief executive Christopher Luxon told NZ media it was important Virgin remained independent as a listed entity.

Email the Travel Weekly team at traveldesk@travelweekly.com.au

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