Australia’s Virgin Blue is launching a daily non-stop service from Melbourne to Mildura, a small regional route that is currently only served by turboprop aircraft from rival carriers.
Virgin Blue says in a statement that it will be launching a daily non-stop service on the route stating on 13 October.
It will be using 78-seat Embraer 170s which are “25% quicker than the existing turboprop aircraft currently operating on the route”, making the flight time 1hr compared to 1hr 20min, it says.
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The competitors on the route are Regional Express and QantasLink which operate Saab 340s and Bombardier Q-series aircraft respectively. Each has around 25 flights per week on the route according to Innovata.
Mildura is a large rural town on the Murray River bordering the states of Victoria and New South Wales. The main industry there is fruit orchards and fruit processing.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
Source: Flight International
