OOL - Jetstar to cut flights to Osaka from May and China Southern to operate two charters for Chinese New Year

Jetstar have announced that they will cut flights from Gold Coast to Osaka Kansai from May 8th next year. The news comes as Jetstar announce flights from Melbourne to Tokyo Narita from April 29th. The reason given for the OOL-KIX route getting cut is that demand is much stronger for flights to Tokyo. Flights from Gold Coast to Tokyo Narita will continue and will eventually be upgraded to Boeing 787-8's from Airbus A330-200s which will see a large increase in seats.

Existing Gold Coast to Japan schedules...

Cancelled from 8 May 2014

JQ19 OOL 1005 KIX 1820 A332 367

JQ20 KIX 2050 OOL 0655+1 A332 367

Continues to operate

JQ11 OOL 1050 NRT 1855 A332 36

JQ11 OOL 1055 NRT 1855 A332 x36

JQ12 NRT 2025 OOL 0625+1 A332 D

More international news out of the Gold Coast. China Southern will operate two charters to Gold Coast for the Chinese New Year. One from Guangzhou on January 27 and one from Shenzhen on February 8, both will be operated by Airbus A330-300s. China Southern have flown to OOL once before in November 2010, an A333 on a charter from Guangzhou.

Monday 27 January

CZ6041 CAN-OOL arrives 0940

CZ6042 OOL-CAN departs 1200

Saturday 8 February

CZ3065 SZX-OOL arrives 0830

CZ3066 OOL-SZX departs 0950