Qantas to ditch San Francisco, add Dallas
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- Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Flights will return via Brisbane to Sydney and flights from Sydney to San Francisco will cease as of 14 May, while Qantas also will increase frequencies on its Los Angeles-New York service to daily from June.
The Dallas service will enable the Australian carrier to link closely with oneworld partner American Airlines, adding more AA connecting services.
The new contact port with American means Qantas will code-share with its partner to 51 destinations in North America and Mexico, adding 16 new destinations to the network.
It also will gain further access to American partners British Airways' and Iberia's networks.
American's travel business will also launch a range of Australian and Asia Pacific packages in the US to support the closer relationship with Qantas.
Commentators in the US and elsewhere already are questioning the strategy, saying that exiting San Francisco will weaken Qantas in the north American and Pacific markets, leaving Virgin's V Australia and its partnership with Delta in a much stronger transPacific position.
