Virgin and Qantas have now stopped passengers sitting next to each other in order to improve social distancing onboard.
The government has granted approval for Sydney Airport to use the shortest of its three runways to store grounded aircraft.
The government has finalised a long-muted deal with Qantas and Virgin to underwrite a minimum domestic network, to the value of $165 million.
The Deputy Prime Minister spoke to both Qantas and Virgin over the Easter weekend about the possibility of the government subsidising a number of domestic flights to maintain air links between capital cities.
These startling images from Flightradar24 show how the skies over Australia have now almost emptied as international and domestic airlines pause most of their services.
Virgin Australia Group has asked the government for a $1.3 billion loan, according to a number of reports.