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The codeshare will see Air India, which operates daily Dreamliner flights from Delhi to Sydney and Melbourne, add its code to Virgin flights allowing onward connections to 16 cities across Australia and New Zealand.

The competition and consumer watchdog, which granted an interim authorisation to the deal last year that has allowed Virgin and Qatar Airways to sell tickets on the flights, believes the arrangement is “likely to result in public benefits and is unlike…

While the new service will begin on schedule, with the first flight slated for 30 March, it will initially operate four times per week on 737s rather than five times per week on the newer A220s, with the A220s now set to take over the route on 26 October.

The Flying Kangaroo’s regional arm is replacing older 50-seat Q300s out of Adelaide with the newer, larger planes, a switch enabled by its move last year to purchase 14 mid-life Q400s to transition its turboprop fleet to a single aircraft type.

The carrier will increase its Sydney–Istanbul services from four to five per week in mid-June this year, then six in October, and finally daily from 12 January. Flights will be operated using A350-900s via Kuala Lumpur, shifting to non-stop next year w…