Australia-New Zealand travel bubble set to open, familes to reunite after COVID border closures
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AprApril 2021 at 1:36am
Pani Holianga, with his daughter Maia, is over the moon to be heading to New Zealand this afternoon.
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Logan man Pani Hokianga is over the moon to be hopping on a flight home to New Zealand later today.
Australian travellers are now able to enter New Zealand without mandatory hotel quarantine. The announcement was made and basically the family all looked at each other and said, Let s book flights , he said.
He s lived in Australia for 21 years, but before the pandemic he used to fly across the ditch at least once a year.
By Jacqueline Howard
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce speculates on future travel bubbles We re still hopeful that maybe there s a potential for travel bubbles like New Zealand. Whether it s the Pacific Islands, Fiji, Noumea. Whether it s the places in Asia that have low prevelancy like potentially Singapore and Korea and Vietnam. One of the things that we ve been saying is that we ll be ready to operate and put the aircraft on when we re given that green light. For example, New Zealand the New Zealand Prime Minister only announced on April 6 that she was opening up the borders on April 19, and we immediately went from nearly one flight a day to 16 flights a day on 15 different routes. So we can move pretty fast when it happens.