Jetstar Asia, the Singapore-based low-cost subsidiary of Qantas Group, will cease operations in July 2025 as part of the airline group’s plan for a “strategic restructure”.
On June 11, 2025, Qantas Group announced that it will close the airline due to growing challenges in recent years. Qantas noted that Jetstar has been “impacted by rising supplier costs, high airport fees, and intensified competition in the region.”
Qantas stated that this has fundamentally challenged the low-cost airline’s ability to deliver returns to the better-performing core markets within the group.
The airline is projected to report an AU$35 million underlying EBIT loss for this financial year, before the closure decision. According to Qantas, closing Jetstar Asia will free up to AU$500 million in fleet capital to be reinvested into the group’s main businesses and improve long-term returns.
“We are currently undertaking the most ambitious fleet renewal program in our history, with almost 200 firm aircraft orders and hundreds of millions of dollars being invested into our existing fleet,” said Qantas Group CEO Vanessa Hudson. “We’re making disciplined decisions which recycle capital across our business and prioritize it to stronger performing segments as well as strategic growth initiatives like Project Sunrise.”
Jetstar Asia will continue to fly for the next seven weeks, but on a gradually reduced schedule, before ending operations on July 31, 2025.
Jetstar Asia passengers with bookings on cancelled flights will receive full refunds, and the group will try to rebook these customers on other airlines, the statement continued.
The closure of Jetstar Asia will only impact the intra-Asia routes that the airline runs from its hub in Singapore. It will not affect Jetstar Airways’ domestic and international operations in Australia and New Zealand or Jetstar Japan.
Jetstar Airways will continue to fly from Australia into Asia including to all its destinations across Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan and South Korea.
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