00:00From a top-end tarmac bound for China, the territory's newest flight route takes off.
00:10Bookings are pretty solid to start off the new service and the message is getting out there.
00:15China Southern Airlines will now fly between Darwin and Guangzhou three times a week,
00:20a boost of 52,000 seats annually.
00:24What an amazing city, 32 million people, some amazing sights to see, Canton, the Pearl River,
00:32like it is an amazing place, it's an amazing place for Australians to explore.
00:36They're the first direct NT flights to China since the departure of Donghai Airlines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:44The new route comes with a confidential cost to NT taxpayers that the government believes will pay off.
00:51For every Chinese tourist that comes into the Northern Territory for a very small investment,
00:56we get around about a $3,000 return, so it's quite significant.
01:00Over the past 12 months, Darwin has also seen new airline routes opening up to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
01:07Officials hailing the flights as a two-way win for trade and tourism.
01:12I think it's great that there's more flights for the Northern Territory.
01:17Connectivity has always been an issue, particularly air connectivity.
01:21With more international flights to Asia, there's hopes that the added interest
01:25could also put downward pressure on domestic prices and flight times to the Territory.
01:31The more international services that we can attract here, then that cascades through to the domestic services.
01:36The gateway to Asia opening even wider.
01:40That's why, the observation of the industry, we have around about another two.
01:44It's very important.
01:45That's why, the fact that we want to bring into the established materials.
01:47However, the first year of Iraq is not only applying for international transportation.
01:48I think that there's much more international experiences than the festival.
01:49The first year of Iraq can't be around a world destination.
01:50I think that there's just a lot of people that have about a world destination.
01:51It's more there.
01:52It's kind of a place that we can choose from the country.
01:53We can try to approach this as well as a international relationship.
01:54Ifsheid, it's a national relationship with one whole person,
01:56the last month is known as a roda and the time as a student.
01:57The newflatable has always been around.
01:58It's the one of the people that preferable for the country
01:59and our relationship, because we need to re-it.
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