Qantas flights between Melbourne and Delhi to start in December

With the launch of the Sydney-Delhi flights, Qantas said it experience the fastest booking demand for flights leaving Australia since the airline announced its international plans in August

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The Australian government has given the order to open up and Australia’s vaccinated citizens and residents have started planning to travel abroad.  Qantas has announced flights between Sydney and Delhi from early December 2021 even as Air India relaunched Delhi-Sydney flights in November 2021. With the launch of the Sydney-Delhi flights, Qantas said it experience the fastest booking demand for flights leaving Australia since the airline announced its international plans in August.

Qantas will be launching new flights in the coming days. It also announced a new Melbourne -Delhi non-stop flight, which is a new route for Qantas altogether. Same-day connections will also be available from Brisbane, Sydney and Canberra. The Melbourne-Delhi flights will begin from December 22, 2021, with four flights per week and will continue till March 2022. The flights will be operated as per the following schedule every Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday/Sunday.

QF69 will take off from Melbourne at 09:25 am, arriving in Delhi via Adelaide at 06:10 pm. (all times local).

QF70 will take off from Delhi at 7:55 pm local time and arrive in Melbourne non-stop at 1:35 pm the following afternoon.

As part of Federal Government requirements, customers on these flights will also be required to return a negative COVID test from an approved PCR testing site within 72 hours of departure

The flights between Melbourne and Delhi will be operated with a technical stop at Adelaide, and the flights from Delhi to Sydney will be non-stop. An Airbus A330, with 28 lie-flat business class seats and 269 economy class seats, will operate this route.

Over the past year, the airline has operated more than 50 repatriation flights from India on behalf of the Australian government to bring Australians home.

Australia is going quarantine free to their citizens and PRs and their immediate families and parents only. The Melbourne-Delhi flight will help them visit their family in India and head back. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said it’s possible that Australia would reopen to international visitors before the end of the year.

As part of Federal Government requirements, customers on these flights will also be required to return a negative COVID test from an approved PCR testing site within 72 hours of departure.

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