Overview

• Qatar Airways will provide aircraft, crew and maintenance under a wet-lease model for daily Sydney-Doha flights sold as Virgin services.
• Virgin will sell tickets to 170 destinations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa through Qatar’s network.
• Brisbane and Perth routes are scheduled for launch later this month, with Melbourne connections to follow in December.
• The alliance is projected to generate over $3 billion in Australian economic activity and create hundreds of jobs over the next five years.
• Virgin plans to relist on the ASX by the end of June while Qantas has countered with discounted international fares and redeployed Jetstar Asia aircraft domestically.