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b1lanc
Certainly some interesting statements. $12.50US between Melbourne to Sydney. Some snippets below."But the airline – which previously planned to remove middle seats to maintain space – insists it is not needed because the pressurized cabin along with medical-grade filters keeps travelers safe.
Joyce said that because passengers face the same direction with “a barrier of a seat in front of them” there is “a very low risk of transmission.”
He also claimed that “we don’t know of a single person-to-person transmission on an aircraft” connected to the pandemic that has infected more than 4.9 million people worldwide.
“With the cabin, with the measures we’re introducing – the masks, the sanitizers for people to wipe down, the extra cleaning we’re doing ourselves, hand sanitizers all the way through the terminals – we’re very comfortable you don’t need social distancing on an aircraft,” he told the show.
If Qantas had to fulfill even 5 feet between passengers, it would leave just 22 people onboard an Airbus SE A320 made for 180, the chief executive said."
https://nypost.com/2020/05/20/qantas...al-distancing/
This seems a bit odd, since Qantas use B737's and A330's as their domestic fleet; their low cost arm, Jetstar, which to the best of my knowledge is managed separately, uses A320's and A321's.