BROOME – The chairman of Australia’s North West Tourism, Ian Laurance, has urged Qantas offshoot Jetstar to keep Broome on its radar for flights linking the north of Western Australia with Singapore.
Jetstar this week launched Perth-Bali and Perth-Jakarta services. Daily flights to Singapore will also commence on December 2.
Laurance welcomed the new services out of Perth but indicated that Western Australia needed a second hub to service the rapidly growing north of the state.
“Broome is the obvious choice for this northern hub,†he said.
“I am encouraged by Jetstar’s predictions that the airline will be 10 times its current size by 2011. I want Broome and the north of WA to be part of this growth strategy,†he said.
Laurance said a good example for the new Western Australian government to follow is what happened in Darwin.
“The Northern Territory government committed A$8 million to ensure that Jetstar created a hub at Darwin – now Jetstar has 70 flights a week operating through Darwin,†he said.
