As the world opens up, more international hotels are reopening and flights (like our very own Singapore Airlines) are resuming services. Here's the latest news from the aviation industry. Australian airline Qantas Airways has just announced that it hopes to resume its flights in December, specifically to countries with higher vaccination rates like Singapore and the US.
The airline first grounded its international fleet in March 2020 because of closed borders. However, it plans to bring back five of its 12 Airbus A380 superjumbos by mid-2022 for flights to the United States and Britain. This is a year earlier than its previous forecast.
Depending on decisions made by the government, Qantas said it expected flights to countries with higher vaccine rates like Singapore, Japan, the US, Britain and hopefully New Zealand, to resume from mid-December this year. Meanwhile, flights to destinations with lower vaccination rates – like Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and South Africa – would restart from April 2022 at the earliest.
This is a good step forward, especially since Australia is targeting for 80 per cent of adults to be fully vaccinated before reopening its international borders. Fingers crossed, we might soon be able to travel to the Land Down Under.
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