Strategic rebrands as Air Australia

From 30 oct 2011 Strategic Airlines will be known as Air Australia and will rebrand as a low cost carrier and fly to HNL out of both BNE and MEL.

Schedules below from Airlines routes.

Strategic Airlines to launch Australia – Hawaii service from mid-Dec 2011

Australia’s Strategic Airlines starting December 2011 will be expanding its service to the US, with 2 weekly each of Brisbane – Honolulu and Melbourne – Honolulu service starting 14DEC11.

Airbus A330-200 to operate the service with following operational pattern: Brisbane – Honolulu – Melbourne – Honolulu – Brisbane.

Reservation will be available starting Monday 15AUG11 (Australia time). However, the airline says fares will not be available until 29AUG11 at the earliest due to these routes remain subject to government approval.

Schedules:

Brisbane – Honolulu
VC001 BNE1800 – 0725HNL 332 35
VC002 HNL1015 – 1600+1BNE 332 46

The airline also says it’ll be launching 4 Daily Melbourne – Brisbane service by December 2011 and increases service to Denpasar and Phuket.

BNE-DPS will go from 2 A330 flights a week to 4 A320's with Monday and Fridays being the new days.

As the article states BNE-HKT will also increase however no new days have been announced.Also a new domestic route will commence with A320's between BNE and MEL.

We wish them all the success and am proud that they are are Queensland carrier.

ALOHA !