Qantas boss Alan Joyce has doubled down on his criticism of the West Australian border closure, firing up at the rogue state yet again.
Mr Joyce sensationally claimed Western Australia is “starting to look like North Korea” with its hard line border closure in a radio interview last week.
Mr McGowan has said he would not be opening the border on the promised date of February 5. Picture: Matt Jelonek Before the pandemic, one of Qantas’ most popular international flights was a direct Perth-London trip and Perth Airport yesterday announced it would be shuttering parts of the complex to reduce operational costs.
“As a result, you’ve got to reset, and you’ve got to rethink the things you were doing in the eastern states.“We’ve had to change things over the summer, it’s had significant impacts but Omicron brought that about.
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