Air New Zealand’s reduced international schedule will now continue through to 30 June. Previously, the airline hoped to increase services from 1 June.
South Australia’s health department has ordered 750 Qantas staff to self-isolate after a coronavirus cluster among the airline’s Adelaide Airport employees grew to 34.
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.
Virgin Australia will suspend all domestic services from 10 April, except one return flight between Sydney and Melbourne.
A LATAM repatriation flight, chartered by the Australian government, conducted a “sweep” of Peru on Thursday, collecting 280 passengers from Lima, Cusco and Iquitos.
Virgin Australia will fly a multi-leg repatriation flight from Brisbane to Paris, via Auckland and Hong Kong, to help stranded passengers from different nations to return home.