More flights as Kangaroo Island bounces back from fires

The state authorities says the airline will goal to have 12 return flights every week between Adelaide and Kingscote throughout the coming summer season, then 9 every week throughout the 2024 winter.

The airline presently operates 4 return flights to the island every week.

Visiting the island alongside along with his SA cupboard colleagues on Thursday, Premier Peter Malinauskas stated the additional flights would enable extra interstate and worldwide guests to journey with certainty.

“Kangaroo Island, in all of its pure magnificence, is a major drawcard for worldwide and interstate vacationers to return to South Australia,” he stated.

“It’s been by a difficult few years. Devastating fires and a world pandemic have been robust, however proved the resilience of the island and its individuals.”

The bushfires throughout the 2019/20 summer season impacted about 40 per cent of the island and took out key tourism infrastructure, however a lot of the rebuilding work is now nearing completion.

The South Australian Tourism Fee has helped assist 9 new tourism companies and has invested greater than $2.5 million in advertising and marketing and occasion assist for a sector that employs about 1500 individuals and is value $187 million a 12 months.

QantasLink chief government John Gissing stated the airline understood how essential dependable air providers have been to communities corresponding to Kangaroo Island to maintain them linked and assist drive extra inbound tourism.

-AAP

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