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A quarter of Australian government’s half-price flights sell on first day – The Guardian
Airlines sell 200,000 of the 800,000 tickets on day one, but the tourism industry says the scheme won’t fill the void left by jobkeeper
Virgin Australia is set to record its highest number of bookings in one day since before the pandemic began, while Qantas and Jetstar recorded130,000 bookings in under hours, following the release of the federal governments half-price flights.
But the tourism industry says the boost will not be enough to fill the void left by the end of the jobkeeper payment.
About a quarter of the available subsidised flights were purchased on Thursday.
It comes as the Queensland government announced an early end…
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