{"id":15691,"date":"2026-07-12T17:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15691"},"modified":"2026-07-12T17:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:38:10","slug":"qantas-increases-flights-between-melbourne-tokyo-adding-seat-capacity-across-tasman-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15691","title":{"rendered":"Qantas increases flights between Melbourne &#038; Tokyo, adding seat capacity across Tasman Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story from Qantas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brisbane, Australia, July 11, 2026<\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>Qantas has increased\u00a0services\u00a0between Melbourne and Tokyo and added more seats across the Tasman as Japan and New Zealand continue to be popular destinations for Australian\u00a0travellers.\u00a0More than 45,000 seats will be added to Tokyo and Queenstown by early next year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Qantas\u00a0has increased\u00a0its Melbourne \u2013\u00a0Narita\u00a0services\u00a0from daily to 11 flights per week from December 2026 to March 2027\u00a0in response to\u00a0growing demand.\u00a0The new flights will add a total of 30,000 seats to the route.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan continues to be a\u00a0favourite\u00a0for Qantas customers, with passenger numbers up 8\u00a0per cent\u00a0between October 2025 and March 2026,\u00a0totaling\u00a0350,000 passengers for the period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, the airline is increasing frequency across the Tasman\u00a0over the summer peak\u00a0for travel between Australia and New Zealand, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over\u00a015,000\u00a0additional\u00a0seats between Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane to Queenstown\u00a0over the summer peak.<\/li>\n<li>Up to 10\u00a0per cent\u00a0increase between Sydney\u00a0and Auckland\u00a0over the same period, due to bigger\u00a0aircrafts\u00a0and\u00a0additional\u00a0flights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Qantas A350-1000ULR Debut CONFIRMED\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PkR_rNhLUvM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story from Qantas Brisbane, Australia, July 11, 2026 &#8211;\u00a0Qantas has increased\u00a0services\u00a0between Melbourne and Tokyo and added more seats across the Tasman as Japan and New Zealand continue to be popular destinations for Australian\u00a0travellers.\u00a0More than 45,000 seats will be added to Tokyo and Queenstown by early next year. Qantas\u00a0has increased\u00a0its Melbourne \u2013\u00a0Narita\u00a0services\u00a0from daily to 11 flights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,9181,89,5637,5500,8590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-australia-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-japan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15691","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=15691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15693,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15691\/revisions\/15693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}