Data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show there were 370,000 ‘short-term overseas arrivals’ in September 2022, compared to 695,000 in the same month in pre-pandemic 2019.
The three-times-weekly, nine-hour service will depart on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays and join the Flying Kangaroo’s seven-times-weekly service to Sydney.
The storage facility’s director of public safety sent out an alert on Tuesday after the US National Weather Service issued a wind advisory to the airport.
The airline said that while airfares had increased due to “strong demand and higher fuel prices”, the points required to purchase them hadn’t similarly increased in “years”.
The Flying Kangaroo has branded Labor Senator Tony Sheldon “frankly irresponsible” for claiming the airline is compromising safety with staffing changes.
It comes despite jet fuel prices in the APAC region going down by 6.5 per cent week on week and prices globally stabilising following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.