Bonza is back in Launceston after the airline suffered numerous cancellations due to a shortage of aircraft in the weeks following its launch in Tasmania.
The budget carrier has announced that they have this week received regulatory approval to operate two additional aircraft from their Gold Coast base, just in time for the busy Christmas travel season.
The Boeing 737-MAX aircraft, leased from partner airline Flair, will take off for destinations including Launceston today.
The airline hopes that this move will provide certainty to travellers who have bookings in the coming weeks.
“We know it’s been a challenging time for some of our customers who were unable to fly and to them we say we’re really sorry and we’ll learn from this and do better to deliver for Australia,” Bonza CEO Tim Jordan said.
“Now that we have approval for the two additional aircraft we’re scaling up our operations and servicing our new routes from our Gold Coast base.”
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Jordan said fares on the new Launceston to Gold Coast route will be discounted by 30% for flights between December 19 and January 24, until midnight on December 21.
“This is our way of acknowledging we could have done better and also shouting from the rooftops that Bonza is back,” he said.
