Australia’s largest convention and exhibition centre, MCEC, hosted over 76 events during May, including manufacturing, hospitality, health, business, industry and consumer events. Events hosted at MCEC have a ripple effect across Victoria, with MCEC employing close to 1,000 people and supporting over 1,700 suppliers and businesses in the operation and delivery of these events. MCEC…
Jetstar To Launch Direct Flights From Melbourne To Fiji
Jetstar has announced that it will start direct flights between Melbourne and Fiji (Nadi) on 16 December 2023*, in time for the busy Christmas holiday season. The new service, flown by the airline’s cutting-edge, quieter, and more fuel-efficient Airbus A321neo LR, will be offered thrice weekly and will transport up to 72,000 passengers annually to the South Pacific…
Emirates to restore daily direct service between Singapore and Melbourne
Emirates will relaunch its daily direct flight between Singapore and Melbourne from 26 March 2023, as part of its frequency ramp up to Sydney and Melbourne in response to strong travel demand. For the period 26 March to 01 April 2023, Emirates’ flight EK404, operated by a Boeing 777-300ER, will depart Dubai at 2115hrs and arrive…
China Eastern Ups Services To Sydney And Melbourne
China Eastern Airlines has announced that it will increase its Sydney-Shanghai route to three weekly flights commencing on 16 January in response to the easing of COVID-19 restrictions in China. During the pandemic time, the route was only operated once per week. China Eastern will also begin running thrice-weekly flights between Melbourne and Shanghai on…
Garuda Resumes Nonstop Flights From Melbourne To Bali
Garuda Indonesia has announced that on 10 December 2022 will resume its service from Melbourne to Bali. Just three weeks after announcing it will resume flights between Melbourne and Jakarta, the new route will begin with a single weekly return flight. GA719, an Airbus A330-300 flight out of Melbourne, will land at Bali’s Ngurah Rai…
AirAsia X resumes operations to Melbourne
AirAsia X (AAX) celebrated its resumption of services to Melbourne, as one of its first key destinations to return to post-pandemic. The inaugural flight from Kuala Lumpur to Melbourne touched down at 6.25am and departed from Melbourne at 7.40am. With strong passenger loads on both flights, the new services signal a sharp rebound in demand…