Jetstar will restart international services from Melbourne's Avalon Airport with a five-times-weekly Avalon–Bali A321LR service from 23 March 2026, resume up-to-daily Avalon–Adelaide flights from 26 March 2026 and add frequencies to Brisbane. The move—backed by the Victorian government—marks Avalon's first international flying since early 2020.
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Reintroduces scheduled international services at Avalon for the first time since early 2020; five-times-weekly Avalon–Bali from 23 Mar 2026 and up-to-daily Avalon–Adelaide from 26 Mar 2026 materially expand connectivity and local airport throughput.
Jetstar is deploying long-range narrowbodies on thin leisure markets—see recent A321LR rollouts for comparable deployments —which enable direct international links from secondary Australian airports (e.g., Sunshine Coast to Bali). (https://hype.aero/?story=93ff921d-305e-47e2-943e-3b4a937567dc)
The carrier calls this its "biggest-ever" Avalon expansion and it follows group capacity reallocation across Qantas/Jetstar; the move aligns with recovering domestic demand (domestic traffic returned to June 2019 volumes), supporting the economics of new leisure routes. (https://hype.aero/?story=1f45324c-439d-4d5a-b84d-c0bfb6eaf5b4) (https://hype.aero/?story=99c8a305-cc12-44cc-bc0c-f1eff03901dd)
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• Jake Nelson