'From a standstill to 500 miles an hour': Travel industry fights to keep up with demand

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Local travel agents struggle to keep up with a growing market for COVID travel advice amid chronic staff shortages.

"We're absolutely desperate and the whole industry is the same."

"That would be an easy solution, to bring out a whole different range of workers to fill the gaps while the industry recovers," he said.International passengers out of Australia jumped 270 per cent in the year leading up to March 30. "An average airfare to Europe at the moment is well over $3,000 if you want to travel in the next few months, so we are seeing the airlines obviously trying to make as much money [as possible]," he said.The Sawtell-based birth trauma specialist recently paid $4,000 to fly between Coffs Harbour and Germany for work in July."I think travel anxiety is real given what happened for so many people in the past two years, people getting stuck and all those things.

 

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Use Km instead of mile please! Australia is in metric system. How many people know: 1 mile=? yard, 1 yard= ? foot, 1 foot=? inch? imperial is a stupid system. Only arrogant country insists on imperial system.

Not only the airline's regulations, but also the local travel load and COVID-19 prevention and control needs to be taken into account.

Well, this is a very good phenomenon. It stimulates the development of transportation-related technology through the demand of tourism, and then stimulates the recovery of the international market economy. It is a very good virtuous circle.

Qantas needs to drop the illegal mandates.

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