Airports stuck on 'slow and staggered' flight path
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The number of people flying in and out of Sydney Airport jumped to its highest level since the outbreak of COVID-19 in December because of a 10-day period when most travel was unrestricted nationally before states slammed their borders shut again.
Sydney Airport had 659,000 domestic passengers passing through in December, more than double the number in November, and the most since March, when 1.3 million travellers took to the skies.
The numbers of people flying through Sydney Airport doubled in December compared with November after most borders opened.
Steven Saphore
The opening of the West Australian border to travellers from NSW and Victoria without requiring them to quarantine from December 8 helped increase flights through the airport.