In a further sign that international travel is well off the cards for at least 12 months, Qantas have pulled their overseas flight sales from their website.
In another sign that holidays overseas will be off the cards until well into 2021, Qantas have officially removed international flight bookings – bar New Zealand – from their website until March 28, 2021.
Last month, the national carrier announced it was grounding 100 aircraft in the US’s Mojave Desert, had axed at least 20 per cent of its workforce and parked some of the airline’s fleet of A380s for “at least three years”. “We have to be realistic about it and say with what’s happening in the rest of the globe, it is probably an extended period of time,” Mr Joyce said, adding it would be “years before international flying returns to what it was” for the airline.Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce says international flights will be unlikely until mid-2021. Picture: James Gourley/AAPFollowing the announcement last month, a Qantas spokesperson told news.com.
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