Sisters Karen and Quynh Nguyen wept with joy as they reunited on Sunday morning after an enforced two years apart.
Karen, a childcare worker, was on the very first flight between Singapore and Melbourne that is part of a two-way unrestricted travel bubble between the two countries. Mr Shin, 29, is just two months into a doctorate in chemical engineering at the University of Melbourne and has come here despite having no friends or contacts other than his university supervisor. He expects to stay here for the next three to four years, but is yet to find a place to live.
Victorian Tourism Industry Council chief executive Felicia Mariani was at Melbourne Airport to greet travellers on the first bubble flight and said Singapore was a highly valuable tourist market, with visitors from the city-state having spent $319 million in Victoria in 2019.Ms Mariani said she hoped to see visitors from the US, UK and Japan welcomed back soon, a sentiment echoed by Melbourne Airport chief executive Lyell Strambi.
AFAIK, aircanada is scheduled to start flights between YVR-SYD next month; been trying to get home since Mar 2020 so .... Fingers crossed.
When does the border open up for returning Australians in India?
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'Travel bubble between Singapore and Australia' - *Where Australia doesn't include WA. (*2.7 million Western Australians are currently not guaranteed return to WA if they leave the state).
There are some restrictions...