Australian travellers are paying about 50 per cent more for international flights than before the pandemic.
to double the volume of international flights allowed at Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane airports.
They have been slow to resume services since the COVID-19 pandemic grounded planes and brought international travel to a halt. Secondly, pilots lost flying hours that are needed to pass safety requirements. Australia was hit harder than the United States because interstate/domestic flights were also grounded by the harsh lockdowns.
Another big issue is the scarcity of aircraft parts and maintenance of those that were grounded. Qantas boss Alan Joyce this week gave the example of manufacturer Boeing suffering major delays all because it had just one supplier for a thermostat component, worth a few hundred dollars in a multi-million-dollar plane. The company was run by a father, who died during COVID, and his two sons, who defected to supply the automotive industry as the pandemic hit aviation.
Of the 28 bilateral agreements in place with Australia, only China, India, the United States, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Singapore have unlimited landing rights. However, similar to Qantas, some of these countries’ airlines are struggling to get back to capacity.
Qatar Airways has been vocal about wanting to ramp up its flights to Australia, but it requires more expansive “landing rights” to fly into popular east coast destinations such as Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, where access is restricted to carriers which are struggling to fulfil their capacity.Currently, Qatar Airways is allowed 28 flights in each direction per week to and from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth.
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