Virgin Australia has reported the biggest sales rush in the airline's history, as tens of thousands of Aussie travellers snap up cheap flights. The Federal Government's half-price-flight initiative, coupled with the lifting of Brisbane's lockdown, have combined to create a huge surge in airfare sales for Virgin, with more domestic bookings than at any other time in its 20-year history. The top four routes in the bookings blitz of more than 70,000 customers all included Queensland destinations, with Melbourne-Gold Coast the most popular route followed by Gold Coast-Sydney and Sunshine Coast-Melbourne. Sydney-Cairns was the fourth most popular. While many of the flights were for travellers keen to book last-minute getaways for Easter, about 85 per cent of the bookings were for travel from May onwards.