Darwin Airport

Attending Routes World 2024 in Bahrain, Darwin International Airport (DRW) discussed its collaboration with key stakeholders and plans for international growth.

Darwin International Airport is the main gateway to Australia's Northern Territory.

Australia’s flag-carrier has added Dili in East Timor to its network from Darwin.

The airline will initially fly from Melbourne three times per week.

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

The airline is dropping nine domestic routes and one international service.

Qantas plans to restart flights to Singapore from Nov. 23.

The service, operated by the carrier for more than a decade, was grounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The airline has adapted its flying schedule in response to state reopening plans and latest border assumptions in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.

The latest additions from Adelaide follow the launch of flights to Cairns earlier this month.

Destinations with high vaccination rates are an initial focus, while Australia’s flag-carrier is evaluating whether to operate scheduled service between London Heathrow and Darwin.

Alliance also cleared to start working with Virgin Australia.

Qantas expects to begin flying Embraer E190 aircraft on Australian domestic services from June.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Virgin Atlantic’s move into the UK-Pakistan market; Jetstar’s resumption of Sunshine Coast-Adelaide flights; and the launch of a new Widerøe route from Bergen.

Following the confirmation that Tigerair Australia will cease operations, Routes looks at the Virgin Australia low-cost subsidiary’s place in the market prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

An agreement designed to bring a non-stop route between the Australian city of Darwin and Haikou, the capital of China's island province Hainan, has been signed during a special event at World Routes.

The new route brings choice and competition to the town after Alice Springs was left without a second carrier when the low-cost airline, Tigerair pulled out in July last year. It also brings additional international connection options through Darwin and the operations of Virgin Australia’s partner carrier SilkAir via Singapore’s Changi International Airport.

The airline will operate the route from March next year and has linked it with the announcement of the new Darwin – Alice Springs route which was announced last month.

The airline, the regional wing of Singapore Airlines, launched flights to Australia in March 2012 with the introduction of flights to Darwin supporting the strategy of its parent airline and allowing the group to grow its network in the country to six destinations: Adelaide, Brisbane, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The introduction of the Cairns route next year is an extension of this strategy.

Australia’s Darwin International Airport has once again been rewarded for its aviation marketing efforts by winning the under four million passenger

Australian budget carrier Jetstar has announced it is expanding its presence in South Australia and will establish a new cabin crew and pilot base in

Asian low-cost carrier Tigerair is boosting its Australian fleet and opening a base in the Queensland capital, Brisbane. The carrier will station two