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.
The suspension is to remain … Read the rest
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
Western Australia has reduced the number of arrivals that they will accept, down to 512 per week, instead of 1,025, and that restriction will stay in place until 30th May.
The high numbers of returned overseas travellers is putting a continued strain and pressure on the WA hotel quarantine system.… Read the rest
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 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
Airlines sometimes weigh passengers, so they can update average weight figures.
In New Zealand “A customer and crew weight survey is completed every five years to meet regulatory requirements.” This is currently happening in New Zealand.
Qantas was doing this on some flights a few years ago.
Hawaiian … Read the rest
There were 32,900 estimated overseas arrivals to Australia in March 2021.
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
I was checking some Flight Costs to compare to another post, and found the following, that I thought might be worthwhile sharing.
These are One-Way tickets, and are almost certainly not direct flights.
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
