Thursday, August 24, 2023

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Mackay and Whitsunday Life

“Ditch The Bruce Highway”: Bonza Launches Cairns To Mackay Direct

Australia’s newest airline’s newest twice weekly flight from Cairns to Mackay touched down in the Sugar City on Wednesday last week.

Customers onboard the low-cost Bonza Airline connection were both travelling for holidays and to visit friends and family.

According to Bonza CEO Tim Jordan the airline’s newest flight path embodies the company’s goal: changing behaviours of travellers by making air travel accessible to the many, not the few.

“From just $49 per person, you can ditch the nearly nine-hour drive between Cairns and Mackay,” he said.

“Why would you battle the Bruce Highway when you don’t need to?”

The North Queensland Airports Group CEO Richard Barker – whose company owns and operates both Cairns and Mackay Airports - greeted travellers to both regions.

“Providing non-stop flights between Cairns and Mackay will give travellers the option of cost-effective flying, whether that be for leisure, visiting friends and relatives or the cost-conscious business traveller,” he said.

“Cairns is the home for many fly in, fly out mine workers who travel to Mackay and onto the Bowen Basin. I am sure the flights will be welcomed by them.”

Today’s flight is the ninth to be introduced by Bonza, and Mr Jordan said there is more to come as the airline launched its second base in Melbourne (Tullamarine airport) on the Thursday.

“[Tullamarine] includes an additional 12 routes including Melbourne to Mackay,” he said.

“That twice weekly service will kick off on 23 May as Victorians go in search of winter sun.”

Budget airline Bonza’s newest flight in a Cairns Mackay connection landed last week for the first time

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