All Australians able to travel overseas from November, says Morrison as he lifts travel ban

Australia’s outbound travel ban will be lifted from 1 November in a move triggered by New South Wales announcing an end to quarantine for fully vaccinated arrivals. On Friday, PM Scott Morrison told reporters in Sydney that from November “we will be allowing Australians, permanent residents and citizens and their families, to leave Australia from wherever they live in Australia and return”. Although vaccinated travellers will be able to arrive in New South Wales without quarantine, Morrison noted arrivals will still be capped in other states “because of the vaccination levels in those places”. In response, Qantas has moved forward the resumption of international travel by two weeks, announcing it will operate up to five return flights a week from Sydney to London and up to four a week from Sydney to Los Angeles from 1 November. The end of the outbound ban will encourage airlines such as Singapore Airlines to fly passengers out of other Australian capital cities which have maintained inbound flights for cargo only. Singapore already runs 17 flights into Sydney a week but only seven – one a day – have passengers. The airline will now be able to sell inbound tickets for all flights to returning permanent residents, citizens and their families, and outbound flights too.<br/>