QANTAS regional airline subsidiary Airlink will operate non-stop services between Brisbane and Hobart during the 1998/1999 Christmas period. Daily non-stop flights between the two cities will be flown between 20 December 1998 and 25 January 1999 by a BAe 146-100 operating as QF871/872. This is the first time Airlink has offered a scheduled service across the Tasman Sea.