Flights to unspoilt tropical resort

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32430, 17 October 1970, Page 18

Flights to unspoilt tropical resort

An Australian airline wants New Zealanders to fly with it to Maroochydore, north of Brisbane, a new unspoilt holiday resort with 50 miles of coastline—and strict by-laws to prevent the mistakes of Surfers’ Paradise. East West Airlines, Ltd, has just been granted Federal rights to fly a Saturday service between Sydney and Maroochydore, beginning on December 15.

The airlines tours development officer, Mr D. McDonald, said in Christchurch yesterday that Maroochydore offers cheaper living, a paradise for health people, cheap (fruit (pineapples, bananas, i nuts), wonderful beaches and aquatic sport. Mr McDonald has been a (week in this country studying the market potential. He

said that the airline planned to appoint a representative in New Zealand next year. East-West, owned by a group of New England graziers, began 22 years ago with a daily flight from Tamworth to Sydney. Now it has five Fokkers, will get full jets next year, and carries 250,000 passengers a year. Mr McDonald said the airline offered any visitor with an air ticket into and out of Australia 49 days of flying for $49. This included flights to the outback and any number of flights between Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The airline also offers a daily air tour for $71.50 where a visitor can visit an outback homestead, see cattle and sheep farming, kangaroos and even an emu in its natural surroundings.