The Doha-based airline has carried over 3.1 million passengers and 180,000 Australians home during the pandemic.
The extend of the commitment of Qatar Airways can be gauged by the fact that according to Australian Government data from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport, and Regional Economics during the peak of repatriation efforts, it carried almost ten times more passengers in and out of Australia than its nearest competitors.
Qatar Airways now operates 24 weekly passenger flights and nine weekly freighter flights to Australia, supporting both repatriation and Australian exporters.
The airline even launched a new Australian destination, Brisbane, during the pandemic – bringing its services to five major cities in Australia, including Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Perth.
Electrifying federal governmentâs fleet of cars would cost $200 million
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It would cost less than $200 million to convert the Commonwealthâs fleet of vehicles to lower emissions electric models within the next decade, according to an analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Office.
The analysis, commissioned by the Greens, covers the Commonwealthâs 10,253 internal combustion engine passenger and light commercial vehicles.
It would cost $200 million to convert the Commonwealth fleet to electric vehicles, the Parliamentary Budget Office has found.
It assumes vehicles are replaced gradually at retirement age, with completion by 2030. The $200 million represents the cost over and above the price of replacing with petrol and diesel vehicles and includes investment in charging infrastructure, which would be expanded with the fleet.
Passengers connecting through to Australia will have to remain in the aircraft on the ground in Singapore and will be segregated from other passengers on board.
Australians stranded in the United Kingdom and Europe will once again be able to fly home from London via Singapore, after the country lifted a ban on people transiting through Changi Airport from Britain.
The Singaporean government s decision last week to block anyone travelling from the UK amid an outbreak of a potentially more contagious strain of COVID-19 there cut off one of the few remaining connections between Australia and the UK.
But a Singapore Airlines spokesman confirmed on Friday that it had received government approval to carry passengers from London’s Heathrow Airport onwards to Sydney and Auckland via Singapore.
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