The flights will go on sale at midday on Wednesday and will operate on Monday 13 July (Sydney), Wednesday 15 July (Brisbane) and Friday 17 July (Canberra).
Qantas will remove the buffet from its lounges when 11 reopen on 1 July – but has come up with a host of innovative solutions to make them COVID-safe.
The current chair of Virgin Australia, Elizabeth Bryan, will launch a withering broadside at former chief executive John Borghetti, claiming he built a good airline but not a “good enough business”. In an interview set to screen on the ABC’s Four Corners on Monday night, Bryan will say, “When I arrived at the airline, a
However, he clarified on Monday that there will definitely be a “next phase” of support, though the government will take its time in deciding its composition.
Singapore Institute of Technology professor Volodymyr Bilotkach asks what Qantas' cuts tell us about the time it'll take for the wider industry to recover.
The airline says it only needs to raise $30 million to expland, and is so confident the target will be met that it's starting preparations "in earnest”.