Virgin Blue Teams up with Air Austral

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Australia and the South Pacific via Reunion Island.

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Virgin Blue, V Australia’s holding company and a leading low cost airline in Oceania has teamed up with Air Austral in an interline agreement to offer passengers seamless travel from Australia to France via Reunion Island, the majestic Indian Ocean Island Paradise.

This new partnership will offer passengers holding a single Air Austral ticket the convenience to have their luggage checked to their final Australian Domestic destination as well as a free shuttle offered by Virgin Blue to and from its domestic terminal to the international terminals at Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.

This new agreement expands the global reach of Virgin Blue; passengers now can either fly Trans pacific to North America and to Europe via the Indian Ocean with greater ease With amazing options to great holiday destinations either in the Pacific, North America, the Indian Ocean paradise of Reunion Island and Europe with Virgin branded airlines, Air Austral and their respective partners passengers have the world truly within their grasp.

Air Austral will fly from Sydney to Paris with a stop-over in Reunion Island on Tuesdays and Saturdays flying the ultra efficient, ultra comfortable, spacious and environmentally friendly Boeing 777 series aircraft.

Talking Point:
With various Asian gateway cities being the traditional connecting stop for passengers from Australia on their journey’s to Europe how with this new offer appeal to passengers and will Reunion Island see rapid growth in connecting and final destination passengers from Australia and beyond in this new partnership between Air Austral and Virgin Blue?