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April 17, 2020 13: 06:30
More than 200 flights a week will quickly take to Australia’s skies, with the Federal government providing $160 million to Virgin Australia and Qantas in exchange for a base number of routes around Australia.
Prior to the statement, Qantas had been minimized to running 105 services a week, while Virgin might pay for to fly just one return path six days a week.
Need for domestic flights has seriously dried up, and Virgin has been pushing the Federal government to provide it $1.4 billion to persevere the crisis.
Up until now the Government has been holding out on that request, however here’s what the Government’s announcement indicates for the airline company market and passengers.
So are we allowed to fly now?
Not actually, no.
The revamping of domestic routes is unrelated to travel constraints imposed at numerous state borders around A