Qantas Selling Fly-Me-to-the-Moon Tickets as Covid Drags On
May 11 2021, 11:58 AM
May 11 2021, 7:27 AM
May 11 2021, 11:58 AM
(Bloomberg) Fly me to the Supermoon is the latest offering in airlinesâ merry-go-round of flights to nowhere, with Qantas Airways Ltd. promising a night of cosmic cocktails and cake aboard one of its Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners.
(Bloomberg) Fly me to the Supermoon is the latest offering in airlinesâ merry-go-round of flights to nowhere, with Qantas Airways Ltd. promising a night of cosmic cocktails and cake aboard one of its Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliners.
After scenic flights over the Great Barrier Reef, vast outback and Antarctica, Australiaâs flagship carrier will start selling tickets from Wednesday for a trip on May 26 to see the rising supermoon, which that evening also happens to be a total lunar eclipse. A supermoon is when a full moon occurs at the closest point to Earth during its orbit, making it appear larger and brighter.
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The US is leading a slow revival in overseas air travel as people jump at the chance to fly to destinations in Mexico and the Caribbean without quarantines or other Covid-related restrictions.
New York to Santo Domingo and Santiago de los Caballeros, the two biggest cities in the Dominican Republic, are among the world’s busiest overseas routes this year, aviation analytics company Cirium says.
Neither made the top 10 before the pandemic. Orlando to San Juan in the US territory of Puerto Rico sits at second-busiest overall, behind Moscow to Simferopol in the disputed Crimea region.
Seven of the 10 most active international city pairs feature the US, suggesting one of the world’s most advanced inoculation programmes is freeing demand that has been building for a year.
Australia may not open border until late 2022: Trade Minister
Australiaâs Trade Minister said the countryâs international borders may not completely open until the second half of 2022, a longer-than-anticipated closure that would be a blow to the airline and tourism industries.
In an interview with Sky News early Friday, Dan Tehan was asked when Australiaâs borders might open. âThe best guess would be in the middle to the second half of next year, but as weâve seen throughout this pandemic things can change, Tehan said, according to audio of the conversation sent by his office.
Australiaâs international borders have been closed since early last year to stem the spread of Covid-19, even though an air-travel bubble with New Zealand opened last month. Delays to the countryâs vaccination programme and the emergence of highly contagious coronavirus mutations, especially in India, are hampering plans to lift travel rest
By Greg Waldron2021-05-06T02:33:00+01:00
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) has come out in opposition of a proposed joint venture between Qantas Airways and Japan Airlines (JAL).
Its opposition is based on the dominant market share of the two carriers on Japan-Australia routes prior to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, says the ACCC. It contends that such an alliance would hurt competition on air services between the two countries.
Source: Japan Airlines
A Japan Airlines 787-8.
“An agreement for coordination between two key competitors breaches competition laws,” says ACCC chair Rod Sims. “The ACCC can only authorise these agreements if the public benefits from the coordination outweigh the harm to competition. At this stage we do not consider that Qantas and Japan Airlines’ proposal passes that test.”