Australia to UK Qantas flights to restart on December 18

Brits in Australia will be able to be reunited with their families in time for Christmas after Qantas confirmed the first flights from Sydney and Melbourne to London will depart on 18 December. On that day, flights will also recommence to Los Angeles, Vancouver and Singapore, with Tokyo and Fiji coming online the next day and Honolulu the day after that. Currently, Australian citizens and permanent residents can only leave the country with an exemption, with Qantas having halted all commercial international flights other than government-supplemented repatriations. Those returning must hotel quarantine for two weeks, but there is hope the federal government will have relaxed that rule later this year, in favour of home quarantine or proof of vaccination status. The airline previously confirmed plans to restart international flying in August, but only today has confirmed the exact dates that are bookable on its website. Currently, flights from Sydney to London via Perth on 18 December are selling from just $2,794.<br/>