From 10am Monday, New Zealanders trapped in Sydney’s lockdown will be able to book seats on repatriation flights to Auckland and Christchurch, with the first flight scheduled as soon as Tuesday 13 July.
The news emerged from Friday’s national cabinet meeting, which also revealed 29 government-supplemented Qantas repatriations are scheduled to fly into Darwin.
Air New Zealand has revealed it will add 11,000 new seats to its route from Auckland to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands. From Monday, 16 August, passengers will be able to choose from 11 different flights, compared with the nine per week previously. This will increase to 12 during the October school holidays. This content
Rex has said it will now issue cash refunds to passengers within seven days if they are unable to get on a flight for any COVID-related reason.
Qantas is set to rival Virgin and Jetstar on flights between Brisbane and the Whitsunday Coast following its launch of 14 new flights on the route per week, as the nation’s capacity war continues.
In this cross-posting with The Conversation, the University of Sydney’s Giuseppe Carabetta discusses the legal ‘murky waters’ of Australian airlines requiring their staff to take the COVID-19 vaccine.