The figures tally with recent comments by Sydney Airport’s CEO, Geoff Culbert, who said Australia’s international recovery is being “frustratingly” held back by a lack of capacity on key overseas routes.
The three men – Russian nationals Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinskiy, and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko – were convicted at the Hague in November of 298 counts of murder.
The federal government said the rules would be abolished from 12.01am on 11 March 2023 and followed no new variants of concern being discovered.
The low-cost carrier, which launched in January, has already announced 27 routes to 17 destinations earmarked in its phase 1 rollout and signalled interest in flights to Sydney.
The national carrier flew VH-OQL, fully fuelled, from Sydney to Melbourne on Tuesday to help fill up smaller aircraft. The aircraft has yet to fly a single commercial flight post-COVID.
The number was up 68 per cent compared to the year prior and well ahead of Jetstar at 544 and Virgin at 359.