Orchid Airways Press Release

Pinguin · Post by **Pinguin** » 06 Oct 2006, 21:46

SYDNEY/BRUSSELS - Ochid Airways, a new Australian airline, based in Sydney and Melbourne is about to start in November 2006. Orchid Airways is a daughter airline of Air Belgium since the 1st of August this year. Following the example of Air Belgium, Orchid Airways flies with Airbus aircraft, the fleet consist of: 9 Airbus A320’s, 2 Airbus A319’s and 4 Airbus A330-200. 2 A330-200 and the A319’s are surplus aircraft of the Air Belgium fleet. The main reason that Orchid Airways and Air Belgium uses Airbus is because of their similarity.

Orchid Airways will bring you an exellent service on board of one of our daily regional and international flights. When flying Orchid, you can choose between three classes: Crystal (First), Diamond (Business) and Explorer (Economy). Every class is adapted to suit your needs. Only or long haul flights (Hong Kong and Perth) have a 3 class configuration, thus the only flights where Crystal Class is available.

Our are classified into different types, “CityExpress”, “CityExpress Direct” and “Orchid Regional” are the flights inside Australia. “New Zealand Express” are flight towards New Zealand or flights between cities in New Zealand, and finaly there are the “International” Flights, those are the long haul flights outside the Oceanic continent.

Orchid Airways has daily flight to one of the below-listed destinations:

Australia

Adelaide
Alice Springs
Brisbane
Cairns
Canberra
Darwin
Hobart
Launcerston
Melbourne
Newcastle
Perth
Sydney
Townsville

New Zealand

Auckland
Christchurch
Queenstown
Wellington

China

Hong Kong SAR

The lastest timetable can be seen here: http://www.orchidairways.be/timetable.htm

Airbus A319

Airbus A320

Airbus A330-200

As you can see, Orchid Airways has changed it’s livery and logo since the July-August Press Release from Air Belgium. We decided to give our fleet a more atractive and modern paint that the previous (orange) livery.

Please stay tuned for the final launch date and the release of our website!
We hope to see you soon in the virtual sky

fokker_f27 · Post by **fokker_f27** » 07 Oct 2006, 08:36

Welcome to Luchtzak and good luck!

Old Nickname - VG · Post by **Old Nickname - VG** » 07 Oct 2006, 14:11

Good Luck Anthony

greetz,
didier

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 07 Oct 2006, 15:32

nice livery!

Sabena320 · Post by **Sabena320** » 07 Oct 2006, 16:38

Good luck. Finnaly I can fly some flights for ABB in Australia and New Zealand

Yannick

nielsbollen · Post by **nielsbollen** » 07 Oct 2006, 17:56

Good luck with Orchid Airways. And I must say, thats a beautiful livery.
Greetz,

Niels

Skyfighter · Post by **Skyfighter** » 08 Oct 2006, 09:29

Once again you made something nice anthony

You know my opinion already

greets

Sabena320 · Post by **Sabena320** » 08 Nov 2006, 17:32

Any idea when the release is ?

Sabena320 · Post by **Sabena320** » 12 Nov 2006, 20:45

yes yes I already knew it but thx anyway

Pinguin · Post by **Pinguin** » 22 Nov 2006, 13:48

Orchid Airways will start the 25th November, go to http://www.flyorchid.com for more information

Pinguin · Post by **Pinguin** » 25 Nov 2006, 00:27

SYDNEY - Orchid Airways, the new Australian airline, has launched the website and the timetable at 9am (Local time). Air Belgium, the owner of Orchid Airways had done a major update to their website to welcome the newest daughter airline in their systems. This means that you can now sign up and fly for Orchid Airways. More information at: flyorchid.com

Sabena320 · Post by **Sabena320** » 25 Nov 2006, 18:09

Good luck with the new airline!

Finally we can now fly between the kangeroos