Airline stands by promise to resume UK-Australia flights by end of year

Qantas has confirmed that they still plan to resume travel between the UK and Australia before the end of the year. The airline is standing by plans to reopen flights to Britain from mid-December, along with routes to Fiji, Singapore, the United States, Canada and Japan. The move is in line with the lifting of Australia’s overseas travel ban, which was due to end on September 17 but has been delayed by three months. In an email to its customers, Qantas said: “With vaccinations continuing to roll out across Australia, we are getting ready to reunite our customers with their family, friends, colleagues and favourite destinations around the globe.” In a statement in August, Qantas said the ability to fly non-stop between Australia and London is “expected to be in even higher demand post-Covid”. The airline is investigating using Darwin as a transit point, which has been Qantas’ main entry for repatriation flights, as an alternative (or in addition) to its existing Perth hub given conservative border policies in Western Australia.<br/>