Australian carrier Qantas and United Arab Emirates (UAE) based carrier Emirates have submitted a joint application to the relevant authorities in both countries to extend its existing alliance until 2023.

With the application, submitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) and New Zealand Minister of Transport, the airlines are expecting to extend their joint business for another five years.

As part of the revised trans-Tasman connectivity featured in the application, Emirates seeks to stop its service from two Australian cities of Melbourne and Brisbane to Auckland, New Zealand, and plans to focus on its non-stop service between Auckland and Dubai, UAE.

Emirates also expects to retain its existing daily A380 flights from Dubai to Christchurch, New Zealand via Sydney, Australia.

The carrier is also examining the potential to launch new direct services between New Zealand and Dubai.

“The planned flights are expected to benefit passengers, particularly business travellers, flying between Australia and New Zealand.”

As part of the new trans-Tasman service, Qantas intends to increase the frequency of its services between Australia and New Zealand by adding seven new weekly return flights between Melbourne and Auckland and two additional return services per week between Brisbane and Auckland.

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Qantas’ proposed trans-Tasman flights will carry Emirates code and will link the airline’s London services via Australia’s Perth or Singapore and Emirates’ services between Australia and Europe via Dubai.

The planned flights are expected to benefit passengers, particularly business travellers, flying between Australia and New Zealand.

The plan is also set to help Emirates to reschedule its Australia bound flights to create better departure timings and to offer more choices to customers connecting and arriving in to 38 European and 28 Middle East and North African destinations.

Qantas’s previously announced re-routing services regarding the Sydney-London route via Singapore is also included in the newly submitted application.