As soon as the announcement of the unsealing of Australia's borders, ticket bookings surged.#Australia unblocked#With the Morrison government announcing the implementation of the border unblocking policy from February 21, Qantas' ticket bookings have surged with it.
Qantas said bookings for flights entering Australia doubled within 24 hours of the announcement. Among them, the United States and the United Kingdom have the largest bookings, and South Africa, India and Canada have also seen a surge in bookings. March, April and May are the peak tourist seasons.
To this end, Qantas is preparing to reopen a number of international routes from 16 February, with three other routes resumed on 27 March, including Brisbane-Singapore, Sydney-Manila and Sydney-Jakarta, and Sydney-Denpasar and Brisbane-Los Angeles on 28 March and 1 April respectively.
In addition, other airlines that have withdrawn during the epidemic will also restart routes in Australia. There were only 38 international airlines operating in Australia in October last year, down from 64 before the pandemic. Among them, British Airways will launch flights from London to Sydney via Singapore on 29 March, the first flight since April 2020.
Aviation analytics firm Cirium compared fares for flights to and from Australia in November 2021 and November 2019, with an average one-way economy class fare of $829 in November 2021, up 56% from November 2019, and a business class average of $3,491, up 64%.
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