David Eyre 
9V-STO Airbus A330-343X (MSN 1132) of Singapore Airlines, VH-XFJ Airbus A330-243 (MSN 1561) of Virgin Australia, named 'Gnaraloo Bay', and PK-GPV Airbus A330-343X (MSN 1577) of Garuda Indonesia, at Perth Airport - 28 September 2018. Photo © David Eyre. 9V-STO is taxying out as SQ224 to Singapore, at 6:41am. PK-GPV is parked at bay 150 prior to departing as GA727 to Denpasar (Bali).
1 September 2018 © David Eyre
Tourism WA and Perth Airport, which have committed $30 million to attract new international airlines to Perth, to increase tourism and promote Perth as the western gateway to Australia.
The funding will be used for marketing agreements with individual airlines to help drive demand for new routes. High priorities are flights from India, Shanghai (China) and Tokyo (Japan).
The WA Tourism Minister Paul Papalia, visited India with representatives from Tourism WA and Perth Airport, holding discussions with six airlines.
China Eastern Airlines is considering flights from Shanghai to Perth, China Southern Airlines may consider increasing its Guangzhou flights from five per week to daily.
Both Japan Air Lines and ANA are considering flights from Tokyo to Perth.
Perth Airport CEO Kevin Brown noted “four billion people are living on our doorstep in Asia and new direct flights to the major population centres are a top priority”.
The enormous and growing Indian and Chinese middle class are increasing the demand for air travel, and significant investments are being made in new and existing airports throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Ref attracting new airlines to Perth, great to see ANA starting in September and hope it is a success.
Not so good was departure of ETIHAD last October, however ET seems to be in some sort of financial woes through heavy investments in tin pot airlines in Europe, all of which failed.
EMIRATES now pulling out of the daily 0600 departure, so will just have the two late evening QR and EK A380s departing behind each other.
BATIK going and maybe MALINDO as well ( time will tell ) no doubt attributed to the LION AIR 737 crash last year.
Indian airlines hopefully will return, but we need to be careful we allow in the right ones for Australia, obviously AIR INDIA would be the choice or SPICEJET.
I dont believe the QF LHR/PER direct has brought any more tourists to Perth, the tourism board would like it to have been so, so we dont actually need all those luxury hotels they are planning to build in that useless Elizabeth Quay area…what a total waste of money that was !
10/10 for Perth Airport for securing ANA
Batik are not ceasing services to Perth – they are reducing to one per day from March 2019.
Malindo has not indicated any reduction in services.
Regarding Indian carriers, IndiGo is the largest in India and their service is good. Vistara is another good airline – a joint venture between Tata and Singapore Airlines. Air India is not renowned for its service. Spicejet was in financial trouble some time ago but seems to have rebounded.
It is possible that Etihad and Emirates have lost some passenger traffic to a combination of Qantas (787-9 direct), Cathay (A350), and Singapore (787-10).