European short haul airlines are already back at 50% capacity by the first week of July, 3.5 months after the pandemic first hit in Europe and a few weeks after travel restrictions started being lifted.
This is because Europe is a lot larger than Australia and the majority of countries have no restriction for inter-European travel.
Chinese domestic airlines are at about 80% capacity now compared to 6 months ago when the pandemic started and about two months after travel restrictions were lifted.
The majority of Chinese airlines are state controlled and were instructed to ramp up capacity. The reality is their load factors are well below 50% and should we believe in everything that state propaganda publish?
Japan’s domestic carriers are back at 66% capacity by end of the month, 80% in August and JAL expects to be at 100% in October.
Japan's second wave of covid is nowhere near the same percentage as what Victoria is experiencing. Let's see how August and JALS predictions turn out........