Alliance Airlines to begin Brisbane – Whitsunday Coast (Proserpine) with F70s/F100s

Alliance Airlines, a very large user of Fokker 50s, 70s, and 100s within Australia, has announced Brisbane – Whitsunday Coast (Proserpine).

The 893-kilometre service will link Queensland’s capital with this important tourist location on a four-weekly basis from 22 June.  It’ll use either 80-seat F70s or 100-seat Fokker 100s.

This will be the first flights to Whitsunday Coast Airport since 28 March, with this new route subsidised – in partnership with the Whitsunday Regional Council – to help local tourism to restart. 

While it’ll have no direct competition when it starts, Jetstar will offer a six-weekly service from 27 June and daily the week after that, the carrier’s website shows.  Virgin Australia, meanwhile, will offer a 10-weekly connection from 13 July.

Brisbane – Whitsunday Coast (Proserpine) had almost 319,000 seats last year, carved among Jetstar and Virgin Australia.  Tigerair Australia ended the route in 2018, whereupon its parent, Virgin, increased its own capacity.

Source: OAG Schedules Analyser. Virgin Blue/Virgin Australia data was amalgamated for this figure.