A quarter of Australian government’s half-price flights sell on first day – The Guardian

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…

Click here to view the original article.