Government to slash domestic airfares to get more Aussies to holiday at home

The federal government will halve the price of nearly 800,000 airline tickets as part of a $1.2 billion package aimed at getting more Australians to spend big on domestic holidays.

The move is designed to prop up ailing parts of the tourism and aviation sectors, which have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic and which fear the end of the JobKeeper program at the end of this month.

Between April and July, a 50 per cent discount on tickets…