Australian Aviation

PM Morrison also announced that from 1 December, Australia will enter into quarantine-free travel bubble arrangements with both Japan and South Korea, which will see tourists from these nations free to come to Australia.

While the Australian government continues to lock out tourist visa holders, travellers from Singapore with a valid student or migration visa are now allowed into the country, for the first time since Australia imposed hard international border policies in March 2020.

Announcing the major milestone onsite at the airport on Friday, Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts Paul Fletcher said the airport’s construction was now one quarter complete.

The airline was revealed in October, and is slated to focus on providing leisure travellers with more low-cost options for discovering new and regional destinations, chief executive Tim Jordan says.

It comes just one year after Virgin was officially relaunched under the ownership of Bain Capital, and 19 months after the struggling airline first entered administration.

It comes after Singapore Airlines announced it will bring its Airbus A380s back into service on select flights between Singapore and London from mid-November, and on flights between Sydney and Singapore from 1 December.