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FLIGHT ALERT: Royal Brunei returns to QLD with non-stop Brisbane-Brunei service

Get excited Queenslanders because flying to Southeast Asia's oil-rich Kingdom of Brunei is about to get a whole lot easier with new direct flights to Brisbane.

Get excited Queenslanders because flying to Southeast Asia’s oil-rich Kingdom of Brunei is about to get a whole lot easier with new direct flights to Brisbane.

Royal Brunei Airlines has announced it’s returning to Queensland after an eight-year hiatus with non-stop flights between Brisbane and Brunei.

From 11 June 2019, when flights take off, Brisbane will be the second Australian city in the airline’s network, along with Melbourne.

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Brisbane-Brunei services will operate four times weekly on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday on the airline’s A320neo equipped with 12 Business Class seats and 138 in Economy Class.

Flights will arrive into Brisbane at 4.45am and depart on 5.30pm the same day.

In addition to connecting Queenslanders to the Southeast Asian country, Acting Tourism Industry Development Minister Di Farmer said it’ll also offer a new route from Australia to the UK, which is Queensland’s third largest international market.

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“Thanks to this new route, travellers will have another option to pick Brisbane as their entry point to Australia and have easy access to many other iconic Queensland destinations.”

Acting Tourism Industry Development Minister Di Farmer

Beyond the UK, the airline’s Chief Executive Officer Karam Chand, explained that the service also offers connections to the carrier’s wider network such as the UAE, East Asia, Southeast Asia and more.

“We offer great value to our Australian guests and exciting destinations such as Brunei, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Ho Chi Minh City to name a few which could be packaged as single or dual destination holidays.”

Karam Chand, Royal Brunei Airlines Chief Executive Officer

 

Would you be up for a trip to the Southeast Asian Kingdom?