Australia suspends all passenger flights from India

The decision of the meeting of the Australian Cabinet’s national security committee on 27th April 2021, was to suspend all direct passenger flights from India.

The reasoning is based on the spike in Covid-19 cases in India, and the numbers arriving in Australia from India.

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India may face Total Travel ban to Australia

On 27th April 2021, the Australian National Security Committee of Cabinet will discuss temporarily halting all repatriation flights out of India.

This follows the 30% reduction in flights from India, that was brought into effect last week.

Countries such as the UK, Hong Kong, Canada, Italy, and Singapore have already … Read the rest

Flights from India to Australia to become harder.

The National Cabinet (The forum of the prime minister and all Australian state and territory premiers and chief ministers), has announced a temporary reduction to the number of incoming flights from India amid a rising number of COVID-19 cases in returning passengers. This is not yet in effect, … Read the rest

Quarantine in Australia even for Domestic Flights

Quarantine in Australia can come at a moments notice.

An example of this happened with passengers on Qantas flight QF778 being being told to isolate for 14 days, after one passenger was found to be positive for COVID-19.

The COVID positive man travelled from Perth to Melbourne on April 21, … Read the rest

Overseas Arrivals to Australia in March 2021

There were 32,900 estimated overseas arrivals to Australia in March 2021.

  • 14,300 Australian citizens (43%).
  • 6,700 permanent residents (20%).
  • 5,100 New Zealand citizens (15%).
  • 6,900 temporary visa holders (21%).

Main nationalities of the non-Australian arrivals, in March 2021:

  1. 5,100 New Zealand
  2. 2,000 India
  3. 1,300 China
  4. 1,000 UK
  5. 750 USA
  6. 520
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COVID-19 Testing for international travellers to Australia.

All people travelling to Australia on flights departing on or after 22 January 2021 (local time at departure point) must provide proof of a negative COVID-19 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test result at the time of check-in.

They are also still required to undertake the 14 days mandatory quarantine on … Read the rest

International Flights Resume to Melbourne, Victoria.

With hotel quarantine being resumed in Melbourne, the State is now welcoming international arrivals again.

International Passenger Flights into Melbourne began again on 8th April 2021, after being suspended in mid February.

The first flight arrived about 4:30 in the morning, with 11 arrivals from Sri Lanka.

More flights arrived … Read the rest