Royal Brunei drops Brisbane and Denpasar

ROYAL BRUNEI A320-251NEO V8-RBD (CN 8368)

As mentioned on this blog on the 20th January 2019 Royal Brunei Airlines would be launching direct flights from Brisbane to Bandar Seri Begawan (the capital of Brunei) from the 11th June 2019. The 4 x weekly services would be operated by new narrow-body Airbus A320neo aircraft. The flights departed Brunei for Brisbane on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The return flights departed Brisbane in the evening on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Previously set to commence on 11th Jun 2019, the revised date ended up being the 10th Jul 2019 and the timings also changed. 

• BI009 departs Bandar Seri Begawan 18.50 – and arrives Brisbane 03.45
• BI010 departs Brisbane 16.10 – and arrives Bandar Seri Begawan  21.30

On the 10th July 2019 the inaugural Royal Brunei 009 departed Brunei at 7.02 pm Brunei time and touched down in Brisbane 6 hours 22 mins later at 3.24 am Brisbane time.

Sadly in late-August 2020 Royal Brunei filed network changes, as the airline wanted to remove 2 routes. The following routes will not be resumed when the airline gradually resumes normal operation, including flights in 2021 and sadly Brisbane is one of them.

Bandar Seri Begawan – Brisbane 4 weekly
Bandar Seri Begawan – Denpasar 5 weekly

It is sad to see this airline wont be coming back to Brisbane. 

Melbourne is now the only Australian city served by Royal Brunei.