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Tellingly, they ve also allowed Australians to make an overdue reacquaintance with long-distance air travel.
For most of the passengers, the flights offer their first taste of travel beyond Australian shores in a year or more with Antarctica likely to remain the furthest destination Australians will be able to travel to until at least the end of the year.
For the next 2021-2022 season, eight flights are already scheduled and available for booking, an increase on the 2020-2021 season by one, with the inclusion of a departure from Hobart, home of the Australian Antarctic Division. You will now receive updates from
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The aviation industry was devastated in 2020. That’s not going to be immediately rectified in 2021. Though there are positive signs a recovery is imminent, it will be a long, turbulent road until we once again reach the lofty heights (and huge passenger numbers) of pre-Covid 19 travel.
Demonstrating this in startling fashion, is a recent photo taken by frequent flyer expert and Flight Hacks founder Immanuel Debeer. Posted to his Instagram account on Sunday, the image (along with a bunch more, which you have to click through to see) has evoked a great sense of loss in many of his followers, bringing home how hard aviation has been hit by Covid 19 in a way statistics fail to convey.