Australia is a huge country, about 4000km from East to West as the crow flies but travel time is much longer if you are driving the highways. For this reason, to save time as a traveller and get to see more of the major attractions Australia has to offer, air travel is the only option. Australia has four major airlines all reputable and with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Qantas the flagship of Australian travel has flights to most places in Australia. It also operates Qantas link which is flies on less commercial rural flights. Qantas has many international destinations and is the owner of Jetstar a budget or no frills domestic air line. Jetstar is venturing into international travel to limited Asian destinations.

Virgin Blue has both international and domestic flights and was Australia’s first real budget airline. Its low coast airfares opened up air travel to many Australians.

The newest airline is Tiger Airways. Tiger has limited domestic and international flights but has very reasonable fares to the destinations that it services.

Whilst Australian domestic air travel is somewhat more expensive than Europe, there are bargains to be had. With fuel prices on the rise, air travel is comparable to driving except the time delay between destinations is reduced considerably.

Tags: Air Travel, jetstar, qantas, tiger airways, virgin

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