TransNusa has launched a new direct scheduled service between Bali and Phuket, operating four times weekly on an Airbus A320.
The new Bali-Phuket route flies every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, connecting two of Southeast Asia’s most popular holiday islands with a four-hour hop.
For Australian travellers, it is a route that turns Bali, the top outbound destination for Australians, into a springboard for a twin-centre Southeast Asian trip taking in Thailand’s Andaman coast.
With the move, TransNusa joins Indonesia AirAsia as just the second carrier to link the holiday hotspots with nonstop flights.
For Aussies considering a double-dip ASEAN adventure, TransNusa flight 8B 541 departs Bali’s Denpasar Airport at 8.50am and arrives at Phuket International Airport at 11.50am.
The return service, 8B 542, leaves Phuket at 1.50pm and lands back in Bali at 6.50pm. The 174-seat A320 operates both legs.
Network boost
The launch adds to TransNusa’s growing network out of Bali, which the carrier aims to build into an international hub. Earlier this year, the airline also announced plans to launch Australia’s only direct flights to Lombok, which would see Darwin become TransNusa’s second Aussie port after Perth, where it operates 21 flights per week.
TransNusa Group CEO Datuk Bernard Francis said the new route now gives the airline four international scheduled services from Bali.
“With the launch of this new route, TransNusa now has four international scheduled flight from Bali, including Perth, Australia, Singapore, and Guangzhou, China,” he said.
Who the route suits
Datuk Bernard said the service was expected to attract holidaymakers, families, digital nomads and adventure seekers looking to experience both destinations, as well as business travellers.
The route lands amid rising demand for intra-regional travel across Southeast Asia, giving travel advisors an easy way to bolt a Phuket stay onto a Bali booking without routing clients back through a mainland hub.
How fares are structured
TransNusa sells its international flights in three bundles: SEAT, SEAT-PLUS and FLEXI-PRO.
The entry-level SEAT fare now includes 20kg of checked baggage on top of the 7kg hand-carry allowance. The top FLEXI-PRO bundle carries a 30kg baggage allowance, free seat selection, food and drinks, priority boarding, and unrestricted schedule changes and refunds.
The Bali-Phuket launch follows the airline’s newly announced Jakarta-Bangkok service, which begins 6 August, with Datuk Bernard flagging further international and domestic route launches before the end of 2026.
