If you thought the coronavirus crisis was going to be brief, sharp and over soon, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has a message for you.
” The impact will be felt for some time,” he said in the same press conference where he told press reporters that he didn’t expect worldwide services to resume in the next fiscal year, which is practically to begin.
That implies Joyce is anticipating Australia’s international border to remain closed, a minimum of for tourists, up until July next year.
Even when that border resumes, he is anticipating the variety of worldwide flights in 2021-22 to be just half of what they were before the coronavirus pandemic, and only back to two-thirds the following financial year.
The Qantas manager is more positive about domestic travel, anticipating that to get back up to 70 per cent of pre-pandemic levels this financial year, and absolutely back to regular by 2021-22
That is, naturally, assuming that local outbreaks like Victoria’s recent spike can be contained and state