One of the world’s biggest airlines have pulled out of Australia
American Airlines has become the first airline to pull out of the Australian travel market due to a reduction in the cap for international arrivals.
The airline will no longer fly to the nation for at least two months in response to the tightened coronavirus travel rules.
Those rules meant planes must fly with only a handful of passengers at a time.
“Due to the ongoing travel restrictions surrounding the coronavirus (Covid-19), American is suspending customer and cargo flights between Los Angeles and Sydney between Sept 1 and Oct 28,”
the airline said.
The tables have turned… American Airlines ditches flights between Australia and the United States until the end of October.
Last week, American Airlines revealed it would fly planes that were 20 percent empty due to caps on international arrivals.
Australia’s National Cabinet agreed this month to halve the number of arrivals into Australia after a push from some state leaders concerned about the pressure on hotel quarantine.
That saw the cap fall from more than 6000 each week to about 3000.
