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Flexible airfares during COVID-19: Fee-free changes and cancellations set to end soon – Traveller
Like excess baggage and seat selection, the freedom to change your date of travel incurs a charge, and that’s where airlines cash in.
Qantas currently offers unlimited changes to flights booked before April 2021. Photo: James D. Morgan
On March 4, 2021, a total of 10 international flights arrived at Melbourne Airport. On that date a year before the number would have been three or four times higher. That same day just 12 international flights arrived at Sydney Airport, five at Brisbane and none at Cairns.
Statistics for passenger traffic at Australian airports show the savage impact of the pandemic on air travel. In December 2020,…
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