American Airways unveils latest route from Los Angeles to Australia

American Airways is planning to fly Down Beneath with a second route from its West Coast hub this winter.

The Fort Value, Texas-based service on Monday introduced it’ll launch nonstop service this December from Los Angeles Worldwide Airport (LAX) to Brisbane Airport (BNE) in Australia.

It’s going to be the service’s second nonstop hyperlink to the Australian metropolis and its third route total to the continent.

The brand new service will launch Dec. 5, simply as the height summer season journey season within the Southern Hemisphere ramps up.

American’s new LA-to-Brisbane announcement got here as its Oneworld alliance companion, Australia’s Qantas, revealed it will enhance its flight choices between the 2 nations.

“Collectively, we provide probably the most complete service connecting the US with Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific,” Steve Johnson, American’s vice chair and chief technique officer, mentioned in a assertion asserting the information.

American’s new Australia route

Headlining American and Qantas’ announcement about December and January 2025-26 service was the U.S. service’s new nonstop path to BNE, located some 575 miles north of Sydney on Australia’s east coast.

American will function its LAX-BNE route thrice weekly between early December and the tip of January 2026.

Passengers reserving American’s new Brisbane flights from Southern California will fly aboard one among its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. Nonetheless, we should always level out that these shall be from the present 787-9s in its fleet — not the brand new “787-9P” plane that includes the service’s brand-new Flagship Suites that debut subsequent month.

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Passengers hoping to attain a kind of suites, with their sliding privateness doorways, ought to as an alternative choose to ebook a seat on American’s BNE route from Dallas Fort Value Worldwide Airport (DFW), which picks again up for the height Australia journey season Oct. 26 after that route debuted for the service final 12 months.

American’s new Australia flight will give the service a complete of three routes Down Beneath this coming season: its LAX and DFW service to Brisbane, plus its nonstop LAX service to Sydney Airport (SYD).

Brisbane sees extra flights

Brisbane, for its half, continues its progress as a vacation spot for U.S. vacationers. Peak-season routes from the U.S. embrace:

• American, from DFW and LAX
• Qantas, from LAX
• Delta Air Traces, from LAX — which TPG’s Clint Henderson not too long ago flew, scoring a Delta One suite on the service’s Airbus A350-900
• United Airways, from San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO)

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Qantas provides A380 to the combo in DFW

As beforehand talked about, Qantas can also be scaling up its flight choices between its residence nation and the U.S.

Between Dec. 3 and the tip of January, the Sydney-based service will shift to each day flights on its route between DFW and Melbourne Airport (MEL).

It’s going to enhance the variety of passengers it could stick with it its DFW path to SYD with the assistance of its Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft.

Qantas presently flies its superjumbo jet from Melbourne and Sydney to LA. Its A380 affords a four-cabin configuration that includes 14 first-class seats, 70 business-class pods, 60 premium financial system recliners and 341 financial system seats — for an eye-popping capability of 485 passengers (such is the A380!).

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Learn how to ebook American Airways or Qantas to Australia

Vacationers hoping to ebook seats on American or Qantas can use American Airways AAdvantage miles or Qantas Frequent Flyer factors for award flights on both airline.

Qantas is a switch companion of American Categorical Membership Rewards, Citi ThankYou Rewards and Capital One.

You may as well discover seats on both service via companion Oneworld packages, reminiscent of Alaska Airways Mileage Plan, British Airways Membership and Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, amongst others.

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