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  • Qatar Airways expands Adelaide service

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    The Qatari national carrier announced it will run five weekly services from Doha to Adelaide – and then on to Auckland – from July 1. The airline was previously running the service three times a week. The increase brings Qatar’s number of weekly flights to Australia to 38. It adds to the list of airlines…

  • Fiji Airways to relaunch Adelaide flights

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    The national airline says from July 4 it will run twice-weekly direct flights between Adelaide and Nadi on Mondays and Thursdays. The flights will depart from Adelaide at 12.35pm. Fiji Airways will use its 186-seat Boeing 737-MAX8 to service the route, with economy class airfares starting at $A649 a person. Fiji’s borders opened to the…

  • Slow takeoff for full return of international flights to Adelaide

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    Nine international flights touched down and departed from Adelaide last week to mark Australia’s borders reopening to tourists from around the world, while a further nine Qantas flights transiting through from Melbourne also departed Adelaide for India. Adelaide Airport managing director Brenton Cox said the reopening marked a “watershed” moment for the company and has…

  • Another positive case prompts Adelaide Airport alert

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    Passengers aboard rows one to four of the Qantas Flight QF733 from Sydney, which arrived at 10:15am on Wednesday, have been ordered to enter isolation and get tested, with unvaccinated travellers subject to 14 days quarantine and vaccinated travellers seven days. Passengers seated in rows five and above must get tested immediately, quarantine until they…

  • New Adelaide exposure sites after another positive case

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    Chief public health officer Professor Nicola Spurrier said yesterday afternoon that the woman in her 30s, an essential mine worker, arrived on Jetstar Flight JQ778 at 5.50pm Sunday. Spurrier said the woman was wearing a mask and moved quickly through the airport before getting into a taxi and going to the Quest King William South…

  • Virgin announces direct Adelaide to Hobart flights

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    The airline will operate four services a week between Adelaide and Hobart on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday from October 22. It is the only carrier airline to offer direct flights to two Tasmanian cities from Adelaide following its introduction of direct flights to Launceston on September 7. Qantas and Jetstar already offer a direct…

  • Govt apologises after border chaos, mixed messages

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    Police Commissioner Grant Stevens took to radio early this morning to apologise and clarify the situation, just minutes after the state’s deputy chief public health officer issued quarantine advice at complete odds with the police direction and the Commissioner’s comments. There was mass confusion and chaos at Adelaide Airport and at road border checkpoints overnight,…

  • Adelaide’s ghost town gateways search for signs of economic life

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    Eleven planes are parked on the tarmac at a near-empty Adelaide Airport while the city’s major entertainment arena, usually swarming with thousands of patrons each week, is eerily empty. In the parklands, Adelaide Oval staff oversee empty stands. Across the River Torrens, plans for seven national conferences attracting up to 3000 delegates at the city’s…

  • Cooling crops become hot airport topic

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    The world-first project is expected to generate strong interest from numerous airports in hot regions, especially those with busy long-haul schedules through the heat of the day. Trials at Adelaide Airport in conjunction with SA Water have shown that planting lucerne around runways can drop air temperatures by more than 3C on warm days and…

  • Adelaide Airport considers call to rename after pioneering aviator

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    In a statement to InDaily, an airport spokesperson said while it was “unlikely” the airport would change its name, there were “certainly opportunities we have looked at and continue to look at to recognise our famous aviators”. It comes after Adelaide City councillor Phil Martin, who sits on the airport’s consultative committee, told last night’s…