With a reported 1500 people in Perth looking for flights to other states in Oz, how come the airlines did not have aircraft and crews in Perth ready to do flights to the other States?
Everyone knew that these people would be coming out of quarantine in Perth. There most likely people are on the eastern states requiring travel to Perth.
A simple post on what every SM you choose stating that there would be a flight departing Sydney and Melbourne on ?? for Perth returning on ?? would have the seats full.
7 News had the next eastbound flight from Perth on the 24th April.
Unbelievable
I don't really understand which part is unbelievable.
With all the various states changing their respective lockdown status on a daily basis, how on earth could airlines reliably forward plan?
Flying empty planes around will only make the airlines go broke faster.
So they take the only logical step available to stop burning through cash.
Governments (State and Federal) have put these travel restrictions in place so the only fair and reasonable thing would be for the various governments to subsidise the flying that they require until such time as the borders are open and traffic is freely flowing again.
Seems quite logical to me.