Low-price airline Jetstar has overcome the final hurdle to becoming an international airline and will launch its overseas services on Thursday.
It has been granted its Air Operator Certificate from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority, to use its fleet of Airbus A330-200 aircraft to fly long-haul international services from Australia.
The Qantas-owned carrier, which has built a strong domestic network in Australia, will also become an international airline on Thursday when it flies from Melbourne to Bangkok, Thailand’s capital city.
It plans to fly that route three times a week.
Sydney to Phuket, also in Thailand, will be flown three times a week from Friday of this week and Sydney to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam three times a week from November 30.
Sydney to Bali, the Indonesian holiday island, will be served twice a week from December 8, and Jetstar will fly Melbourne to Bali twice a week from December 9.
Jetstar has been happy with its domestic operations through Adelaide Airport and has an interest in eventually having international flights through Adelaide.
Its planned overseas destinations in addition to those above include Honolulu in the Pacific as well as Osaka and Nagoya in Japan.
Its Airbus aircraft are configured to 303 seats for economy and for business class called StarClass.
“The Jetstar organisation is ecstatic to have obtained regulatory approval to commence our new international flights,” chief executive Alan Joyce said yesterday.
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