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Pacific Blue's announcement of new trans-Tasman services is seen as part of a plan by parent company Virgin Blue to create an Asia-Pacific network.
Yesterday Pacific Blue said it would start flying nine return trips a week from Auckland to Sydney, starting in October.
The airline said it would be getting another 180-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft in early September to fly the new route, bringing its total fleet number to nine. The new services added nearly 169,000 extra seats each year.
A fortnight ago the company announced it would fly between Auckland and Melbourne from next month.
Virgin's operations were to stretch beyond Australasia and the Polynesian islands, including Fiji, Samoa and the Cook Islands, to the United States, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today.
In December, its international offshoot, V Australia, begins 10 return flights a week on the trans-Pacific route.
12-Aug-2008 Source: Press Release
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