The daily service, which launched only last June, will be dropped from 24 February, with Virgin to redeploy the 737 MAX 8 aircraft currently operating the route onto domestic flights.
It comes after Jetstar was forced to cancel virtually all flights until 2am Saturday after its baggage systems were affected and check-in issues occurred.
The Flying Kangaroo said it spent more than 150 hours testing different options that could mimic human’s “circadian rhythms” to help customers adjust to their destination’s time zones.
The TWU says the four-hour flight, which carried the Fremantle Dockers AFL team home from Launceston to Perth on Saturday, 13 July, ran out of water after around half an hour, disabling the toilets and posing a “significant health and safety risk”.
The Qantas CEO’s comments come after Bonza, which had ambitions to connect mostly regional destinations unserved or underserved by the major players, was put into liquidation earlier this month.
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