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Cheap flights: Cut price plane tickets to send 800,000 travellers to the regions – Sydney Morning Herald
Airline tickets will be sold at half price to 800,000 travellers in a federal bid to help the tourism industry recover from the pandemic.
The big winners from the package are Qantas and Virgin, which can use the subsidies to cut fares to major tourism destinations, but the help will also go to smaller airlines on regional routes.
The 13 regions that qualify for the cut-price fares include Lindsay Foxs Avalon airport near Geelong, which could give travellers an incentive to go to regional Victoria and Melbourne.
The key NSW destination is Merimbula on the states South Coast but there is no equivalent location on the North Coast despite…
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