Queentown’s ski resorts, including Coronet Peak, kicked off over the weekend with some good news – Qantas is adding more seats to the destination over winter.
The Flying Kangaroo announced 13 extra services from Sydney to Queenstown during July and August, after experiencing strong demand.
According to Coronet Peak, good ski conditions have attracted strong numbers, including 100 people who arrived on opening day on 11 June.
Qantas’ 11 extra services will operate on selected weekdays, meaning Qantas will offer twice-daily flights on these dates. On all other weekdays the carrier will continue to offer a daily service.
Qantas will also add a second daily flight on Saturday 6 and Saturday 13 August – adding to its existing twice-daily Saturday services in July.
The new flights will depart Sydney as QF181 at 7.10am and arrive in Queenstown at 12.15pm. Return flights will depart as QF182 at 1.20pm and arrive at 2.35pm.
Meanwhile, Qantas also revealed today that it has completed the share buy-back of 143,599,336 shares.
The purchase of $500 million was announced at the airline’s half year results earlier this year.
Combined with the $505 million capital return and associated share consolidation completed on 6 November 2015, the number of ordinary shares on issue for Qantas Airways Limited has decreased by 12.6 percent since 30 June 2015. Upon cancellation of all shares purchased under the buy-back there will be 1,918,801,014 ordinary shares on issue.
