Qantas launches new commercial air services

Touchdown Timor

As an island nation, improving air connectivity is crucial to develop Timor-Leste’s small but growing tourism sector. Only 74,000 total visitors arrived per year pre-COVID-19. Timor-Leste needs more regular flights, especially to Australia, which is the source country of 40 per cent of its leisure travellers. In January 2022, the Governments of Timor-Leste and Australia signed an air service agreement, opening the possibility of more commercial flights.