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"Qantas and Jetstar, they've sold between them 95,000 tickets. Virgin, they've sold thousands upon thousands of tickets as well so it's more than 100,000 already," he said.Mr McCormack said the government would "continue to review" the scheme to ensure it was benefiting the tourism destinations.
"This is the opportunity to halve the price of their ticket, paid for by the government, so they can go to one of those fantastic places and enjoy themselves." He also addressed concerns that Queensland's recent COVID-19 outbreak would prevent would-be travellers from booking flights there, as"We would prefer, of course, that everything was open for business but that is a decision taken by the Queensland government," he said."We wanted to make sure that the health and safety precautions are taken but, as I say, there's plenty of places in Australia crying out for visitors and this scheme enables them to do just that.
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