Local travel agents struggle to keep up with a growing market for COVID travel advice amid chronic staff shortages.
"We're absolutely desperate and the whole industry is the same."
"That would be an easy solution, to bring out a whole different range of workers to fill the gaps while the industry recovers," he said.International passengers out of Australia jumped 270 per cent in the year leading up to March 30. "An average airfare to Europe at the moment is well over $3,000 if you want to travel in the next few months, so we are seeing the airlines obviously trying to make as much money [as possible]," he said.The Sawtell-based birth trauma specialist recently paid $4,000 to fly between Coffs Harbour and Germany for work in July."I think travel anxiety is real given what happened for so many people in the past two years, people getting stuck and all those things.
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