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Background:

  • Virgin Australia will adjust its network in response to changing border requirements and expanded restrictions now in place for Greater Sydney and New South Wales.

  • To assist customers who were originally booked to travel to New South Wales, Virgin Australia will redeploy aircraft and crew to several unrestricted destinations to assist them with last-minute holiday travel.
  • The additional flying includes several reintroduced services as well as expanded frequencies over the upcoming holiday period to 11 July 2021.

Reintroduced routes:

    • Melbourne-Darwin – daily flights, adding more than 1,200 seats
    • Melbourne-Hamilton Island – up to 3 flights per week, adding more than 500 seats
    • Melbourne-Ballina Byron – up to 7 flights per week, adding more than 1,200 seats

Expanded frequencies (each way):

    • Adelaide-Brisbane – up to 6 extra flights, adding more than 1,050 seats over the holiday period
    • Adelaide-Gold Coast – up to 6 extra flights, adding more than 1,050 seats over the holiday period
    • Brisbane-Cairns – up to 16 extra flights, adding more than 2,800 seats over the holiday period
    • Brisbane-Hobart – up to 4 extra flights, adding more than 700 seats over the holiday period
    • Brisbane-Darwin – additional 4 flights, adding more than 350 seats over the holiday period
    • Additional 18 flights on popular Melbourne holiday routes, adding more than 3,100 seats to the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, and Brisbane.
  • These additional services will ensure the majority of our fleet continues to operate throughout the holiday period and that many of our frontline team members can continue to work.
  • The new services will be available for booking at virginaustralia.com from tonight.

Comments from a Virgin Australia spokesman:

If there’s one thing we’ve learnt from this pandemic, it’s that Australians have retained their strong sense of passion for travel.

Because many have been disrupted by the latest border changes, we’ve updated our schedule and expanded frequencies to several unrestricted destinations these upcoming holidays.

There’s still plenty of Australia to see and plenty of flights to choose from for travellers looking for an alternative. We’ll continue to monitor these new flights and add more as travel demand increases.