Originally Posted by
transition_alt
I fail to see how this will change anything...
People have been on JobKeeper for a year now (including people not in aviation / tourism). This support is about to end.
The government want people to start taking local holidays, which are already more expensive than international holidays most of the time.
So they give half price flights to 800,000 people. What were these fares originally? $100-150? So they’ve saved $50-75 each way.
People still need to pay thousands for the rest of their holiday that hasn’t been offered support. Albeit, a small ‘low interest’ loan.
What a joke.
Agreed. It’s a huge effing joke and shows how the Pollies in their Can’tberra bubble are totally disconnected from reality. Cheaper airfares? Yeah right, for who? For people who have lost their businesses, barely eeking out an existence on unemployment benefits, lost their homes? These jerks in Can’tberra are acting like COVID doesn’t exist and never did. Everything is normal. Then, as has been mentioned, why would you invest your precious few pennies in a planned holiday when morons like Politicians threaten to shut borders when a fragment of old COVID is found in a Pensioners turd in a sewerage treatment plant, or the local school headmaster sneezes or heaven forbid some pre-school kid catches knits!!!! Quick quick shut Australia down. Absolute jerkoffs who have no idea whatsoever.