Jetstar launches Melbourne-Phuket, adjusts schedules

JETSTAR Asia has unveiled a new link to Phuket from Australia, while also tweaking its flight frequencies on some routes ahead of the year-end travel season.

Beginning December 14, Jetstar will commence twice-weekly direct flights from Melbourne to Phuket. This will be upped to three times weekly in March 2014.

Jetstar Group CEO, David Koczkar, said: “We see a lot of customers booking flights to Phuket via Sydney or Singapore, so we’ve decided to add a non-stop flight for Victorians.”

The LCC’s Melbourne-Honolulu service will also receive a boost on December 19, with frequencies to rise from three to four times a week.

Singapore flights will also increase from five to six times a week on December 18.

Earlier in the week, Jetstar also announced that the first international flights out of Adelaide would take off on December 16 with the launch of a thrice-weekly service to Auckland.

On the other hand, Jetstar would be suspending its four weekly direct services between Singapore and Osaka on November 1 as well as its thrice-weekly Singapore-Beijing route from November 30.

However, the carrier would continue to serve Osaka from Singapore via 14 weekly flights to Taipei and four per week to Manila.

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