Virgin Australia increases summer holiday flights to Queensland & Tasmania

The Virgin Australia group of airlines today announced it will be adding significant additional capacity into
Tasmania and Queensland for the Summer holiday period.

A total of more than 16,000 additional seats are available for sale now for travel between 12 December 2011
and 31 January 2012, on flights between the cities of Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sydney,
Launceston, Hobart and Melbourne.
This extra capacity includes special seasonal direct flights between Launceston and Brisbane; operating as
six return flights per week from 12 December 2011 to 31 January 2012; significantly reducing travel time
between the two cities.
“With Summer holidays on the way, these additional services will give families many more options for their
interstate travel plans,” Virgin Australia Group Executive – Alliances, Network and Yield, Merren McArthur
said.
“In recent weeks we have scheduled hundreds of additional flights to help support the Australian travel and
tourism industry.”
“It is part of our commitment to continue to offer competitively priced fares for Australia’s leisure travellers.”