Originally Posted by
dr dre
Sure about that? Not what I’m reading from the sources I’ve looked at.
It looks like the first indications of the drawback of capacity was the 9th of March, then more substantial stand downs were announced late evening in the media on the 18th of March, and in press release early the next morning. The government didn’t announce the international border closure until the afternoon of the 19th. It was close but stand downs happened before the closure. Up until that point the federal government was just “discouraging” international travel.
Not sure about other departments but Longhaul Pilots were stood down effective 30th March - due to border closure being “outside of their control” and further to that having “no effective work” for us to do.
The trigger event was the border closure.