{"id":10149,"date":"2021-03-01T18:26:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T00:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=10149"},"modified":"2021-03-01T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T00:30:35","slug":"qantas-starts-flights-to-griffith-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=10149","title":{"rendered":"Qantas Starts Flights to Griffith, Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>QantasLink is today adding Griffith to its map, operating direct flights from Sydney for the first time to meet increased demand for travel within Australia. The inaugural flight QF2121 arrived in Griffith from Sydney at midday with local business and community leaders at the Airport to welcome the aircraft\u2019s arrival. The service will operate daily with the airline\u2019s turboprop 50-seat Q300 aircraft, adding more than 700 seats on the route each week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking from Griffith to mark the inaugural flight, QantasLink CEO John Gissing said the new route reinforced the national carrier\u2019s commitment to supporting regional Australia. \u201cAs the national carrier, we have an important role to play in driving tourism and supporting the industry in its recovery from COVID-19. We know Australians want to travel so we\u2019ve been looking for opportunities to support new routes where there is demand and help deliver a boost for local businesses. We\u2019re working with tourism partners to promote the world-class wineries and fresh produce of the beautiful Riverina region to millions of our frequent flyers around the country&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qantas (<a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/QAN.AX?p=QAN.AX&amp;.tsrc=fin-srch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">QAN.AX<\/a>) is also today launching a new regional route from Melbourne to Merimbula. Since the start of COVID-19, the Qantas Group has announced or commenced flying on 26 new routes across Australia, reflecting new travel demand patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The route launch follows a new\u00a0suite of initiatives\u00a0introduced for customers, including a boost to flexibility allowing unlimited flight changes until at least February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Qantas has introduced a number of initiatives improve safety and peace-of-mind when travelling domestically through its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qantas.com\/au\/en\/travel-info\/travel-updates\/coronavirus\/health-while-flying.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fly Well<\/a>\u00a0program, including masks on board, hand sanitising stations and enhanced aircraft cleaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QantasLink is today adding Griffith to its map, operating direct flights from Sydney for the first time to meet increased demand for travel within Australia. The inaugural flight QF2121 arrived in Griffith from Sydney at midday with local business and community leaders at the Airport to welcome the aircraft\u2019s arrival. The service will operate daily with the airline\u2019s turboprop 50-seat Q300 aircraft, adding more than 700 seats on the route each week.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from Griffith to mark the inaugural flight, QantasLink CEO John Gissing said &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10174,797,4813,3965,9181,89,5637,13618,8222,10701,10700,5992,5670,2203,5500,5676,10169,10176,1397,10173,10195,10171,868,10182,1103],"tags":[464,420,92,9619,1480,160,988,1925,1024,851,3954,3781,4921,10634,5077,2493,6044,2514,482,11984,1329,2290,12332,13097,4379,1681,2886,12895,6948,3577,13101,843,412,5519,2899,6302,1090,594,13102,485,12333,7136,4203,1089,14029,1762,1055,8998,101,9064,1756,2801,1691,1658,1916,2786,8047,13975,2755],"class_list":["post-10149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-airport-news","category-australia-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-coronavirus","category-covid-19","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-finance-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-international-news","category-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-stockairline","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-airport","tag-arrival","tag-australia","tag-aviation","tag-business","tag-carrier","tag-ceo","tag-class","tag-commitment","tag-community","tag-country","tag-covid-19","tag-daily","tag-demand","tag-direct","tag-financial","tag-flights","tag-flyers","tag-flying","tag-frequent","tag-gissing","tag-griffith","tag-increased","tag-industry","tag-john","tag-kangaroo","tag-leaders","tag-melbourne","tag-merimbula","tag-national","tag-news","tag-operate","tag-operating","tag-opportunities","tag-partners","tag-premium","tag-q300","tag-qantas","tag-qantaslink","tag-recovery","tag-region","tag-regional","tag-riverina","tag-route","tag-service","tag-starts","tag-stock","tag-supporting","tag-sydney","tag-tourism","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-turboprop","tag-welcomes","tag-wineries","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10153,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions\/10153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}