Virgin, Qantas decision to delay international flights is ‘not surprising’14/05/2021|2min
Flight Centre Co-Founder Graham Turner says Virgin and Qantas’ decisions to delay international flights until December following the budget assumption international borders are unlikely to open until mid-2022 is “not surprising”.
“If you notice in the budget it made very clear that the exemptions to that international travel would be what they call safe travel zones,” he said.
“And obviously that’s New Zealand, I suspect Singapore will come online pretty soon and perhaps some other South East Asian or South Pacific islands.
“So we’re not too worried, the Virgin and Qantas news is not surprising, international travel’s not as important for them as domestic is”.
The $50 billion industry said it was left empty-handed by the federal budget, but would hold the government to its mid-2022 border reopening as Qantas pushed back its international restart plans.
Flight Centre CEO reasonably positive about future travel05/05/2021|6min
Flight Centre CEO Graham Turner says at some stage Australia needs to open up to the world adding he is optimistic it can happen in some capacity soon.
“I do think by the end of July we will be allowing certain people who are vaccinated into the country with minimal quarantine,” Mr Turner told Sky News.
“I’m reasonably positive things are going to get better over the next few months.”
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Amid shocking news about rising COVID-19 deaths and health systems collapsing across the world, especially India and Brazil, travel company Trafalgar Group chose to issue a perky email:
“We don’t know about you, but to us it feels like the world of travel is changing fairly quickly right now. As borders continue to open up and destinations continue to open their borders to vaccinated travellers, or those who can show evidence of being tested, it seems like the world we once knew is in sight once more.”
Really?
In response to a polite inquiry, Trafalgar told me that protected travellers can now visit countries such as Iceland, Spain and Croatia.