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Qantas international flights from Australia: The routes set to start in December
Australians could be taking their first international flight on December 18
Australia’s national carrier Qantas has scheduled international flights to recommence from December 18 2021, with the airline already offering bookings to destinations such as London and Los Angeles.
The national airline’s online booking site is accepting bookings for flights between Sydney and London as well as Melbourne to London flights on December 18, with flights also scheduled to Vancouver and Singapore on the same day.
On December 19 flights are also scheduled to Los Angeles, Tokyo, Hawaii and Fiji
As it currently stands, those international flights scheduled for mid-December are primarily scheduled to depart from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
The airline’s decision to recommence international travel was first announced on August 18, with CEO Alan Joyce hopeful of an international travel restart.
As revealed in his August strategy note, Joyce noted that the final decision on the country’s international borders remains in the hands of the Federal Government.
“It’s obviously up to government exactly how and when our international borders re-open, but with Australia on track to meet the 80 per cent trigger agreed by National Cabinet by the end of the year, we need to plan ahead for what is a complex restart process,”
Mr Joyce said.
Qantas has confirmed that the rest of its international network is planned to open up from April 2022.
The Australian Federal Government’s ban on overseas travel is currently in force until at least December 17.