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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>International Direct Flights</name>
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        <heading>International Direct Flights</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2019-09-24">
            <name>International Direct Flights</name>
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          <by role="member" id="4697">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Leader of the Opposition) (14:50):</by>  A supplementary arising from the answer: is the minister aware of how many direct international flights have been either cancelled or scaled back since the minister became responsible for this area of government?</text>
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      <talker role="member" id="1820" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Trade</name>
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          <question date="2019-09-24">
            <name>International Direct Flights</name>
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          <by role="member" id="1820">The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) (14:50):</by>  I will respond to that by just outlining that we have 47 flights that come into Adelaide each week. There are always some slight tweaks and changes, but the changes I'm aware of include Cathay Pacific actually increasing by one flight a week from October 2018 and, as I said, during the peak season China Southern Airlines increased daily flights to go to seven days a week.</text>
        <text id="201909247a4c5e5239984b5c90000167">Malaysia Airlines increased one flight a week from Kuala Lumpur in July 2018, and since April 2018 Malindo Air has commenced flights between Adelaide and Bali. The only decrease is that Fiji Airways announced it would cease its operations due to issues with the B737 MAX aircraft.</text>
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