Qantas has brought forward international ticket sales for destinations including the US and UK despite growing coronavirus rates overseas. As vaccines roll out across the world, tickets have gone on sale for as early as July. Sales had been suspended until October this year, after the airline giant’s chief executive Alan Joyce said it was unlikely international travel would go ahead at all this year. ‘Recently we have aligned the selling of our international services to reflect our expectation that international travel will begin to restart from July 2021,’ a spokesman told AAP on Tuesday. Flight Centre CEO Graham ‘Skroo’ Turner welcomed Qantas’ announcement. ‘I think it’s reasonable to accept that vaccinated people will be able to travel reasonably widely by July,’ Mr Turner told the Courier Mail. ‘I would be surprised if a reasonable level of international travel for Australians wasn’t occurring by then.’ Mr Turner, who is in hotel quarantine in Australia after visiting London for business, said he would wait to see the success of Qantas’ flight sales before Flight Centre resumes its own holiday packages. Qantas has advertised international flights for July 2021, indicating that international travel could be an option for Australians sooner than expected Qantas… Read full this story
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