Jetstar has launched a new ad campaign to encourage domestic travel, using the tagline, “Travel here while the rest of the world can’t.”
However, all Kiwis who attended the same locations as the COVID-infected case will have to test negative and self-isolate for five days before being allowed to travel.
The flag carrier is attempting to push back Nick Rohrlach’s first day so it occurs after a final hearing takes place, which will likely be in June or July.
The move will be a huge blow to the more than 9,000 ex-pats in India who are registered with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as wanting to return – with 650 of those classed as vulnerable.
The airline said the decision isn’t final and will follow a consultation process with employees, who have already been stood down since May 2020.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has written a withering newspaper column about rival Rex, mocking its “empty aircraft” that are so old the “propellers are literally falling off”.