Qantas reroutes Sydney to London flights through Singapore instead of Dubai, upgrades aircraft, and strikes up a five year extended partnership with Emirates.
Qantas will re-route its daily Sydney-London service through Singapore rather than Dubai and upgrade its existing daily Melbourne-Singapore flight from an A330 to an A380.
Qantas’s existing Melbourne-Dubai-London service will be replaced with its Dreamliner service flying Melbourne-Perth-London.
The airline believes customer demand for flights between Australia and Dubai will remain well served by the 77 weekly services that Emirates operates from five cities – Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney – including seven daily A380 flights. Qantas passengers will still be able to fly on Emirates to Dubai, where they have access to over 60 onward connections on Emirates to Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the changes would help the carrier keep up with customer demand and new aircraft technologies.
“Our partnership has evolved to a point where Qantas no longer needs to fly its own aircraft through Dubai, and that means we can redirect some of our A380 flying into Singapore and meet the strong demand we’re seeing in Asia,” he said.
“Improvements in aircraft technology mean the Qantas network will eventually feature a handful of direct routes between Australia and Europe, but this will never overtake the sheer number of destinations served by Emirates and that’s why Dubai will remain an important hub for our customers.”
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