After nearly 600 days of closed borders, Australia has welcomed its first quarantine and travel bubble-free international flights on Monday morning. A flight from Singapore arrived in Sydney’s Kingsford Smith International Airport before 5:30 a.m. with a Qantas flight from Los Angeles, the United States, following at 6 a.m. The initial flights entering Australia are limited…
International Travel As Incentive for Vaccination in Australia
The restart of international travel for Victoria and New South Wales (NSW) is now being used as an incentive to encourage vaccination rates in other jurisdictions that are falling behind around Australia. Victoria, as of Friday, has joined New South Wales in allowing quarantine-free arrivals from overseas, with the federal government opening borders on Nov….
Qantas Brings Forward International Flights as Sydney Set to Reopen
Australia’s major airline Qantas will bring forward a series of international flights from Sydney to Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Johannesburg, and Fiji. Qantas said on Friday that the changes would enable the airline to bring 11,000 of its employees previously stood down back to work in December—including about 5,000 employees linked to domestic flying and 6,000…
Pandemic-Hit Qantas Weighs New Pay Structure to Keep Key Executives
SYDNEY—Qantas Airways Ltd said on Friday it was considering new ways to structure pay to ensure it could retain key executives as it enters the third financial year affected by the pandemic-driven slowdown in travel. Qantas Chairman Richard Goyder said executives had faced a high workload with no annual bonuses for the last two years,…
Qantas International Flights From Australia Scheduled for Dec. 18
Qantas’s first commercial international flights from Australia in nearly two years are scheduled to take off on Dec. 18 and the two days following, right after the Federal Government’s overseas travel ban deadline on Dec. 17. The flights will depart from Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. The first destinations include London, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Singapore, Tokyo,…
Qantas to Ban Unvaccinated Passengers for International Flights
Alan Joyce, the CEO of Qantas, Australia’s major airline and international carrier, has confirmed that the company will only allow fully vaccinated people to board international flights as Australia prepares to reopen its border by Christmas. Speaking at the Trans-Tasman Business Circle on Sept. 7, Joyce said the airline would adopt a policy of requiring…
Industry and Government Agreement for Vaccination Plan While Unions Fight Against Mandates
Businesses, unions, and the government have agreed to work together to develop a plan that will encourage workers to get vaccinated without resorting to vaccine mandates. On Wednesday, Industrial Relations Minister Michaelia Cash lead a virtual roundtable discussion with 50 employer groups, union, and government leaders to discuss how to approach and support workplace vaccinations….
Qantas Makes COVID-19 Vaccines Mandatory For Staff
Australia’s major airline and international carrier Qantas is making vaccines mandatory for all staff as part of its efforts to ensure workplace safety. Frontline employees, including cabin crew, pilots, and airport workers, will all need to have received their two shots of a COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 15. The remainder of its staff will need…
Qantas Boss Urges Vaccination to End Lockdowns as 2,500 Employees Stood Down
Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce has urged Australians to get vaccinated so that “lockdowns will be a thing of the past,” as domestic border closures force the national airline to stand down 2,500 employees for at least two months due to the lack of flying. This comes as state officials direct people in Greater Sydney to…
Aussies Could Soon Get Vaccinated at Local Woolies, Bunnings, or Officeworks
July 6, 2021
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Australian businesses are putting up their hands to provide public vaccinations sites to their local communities as the rollout is expected to ramp up in September. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Lieutenant-General John Frewen met with business leaders to discuss how industries could get involved in the national vaccine rollout effort. “Commonwealth GPs and hubs, and…
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