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Having escaped Australia during the middle of the pandemic, I'd like to correct this article: Australia's only long-haul carrier during the pandemic was United.
by empressplay 4y ago
Having escaped Australia during the middle of the pandemic, I'd like to correct this article: Australia's only long-haul carrier during the pandemic was United.
Thanks United for getting me out of Australia!
- exidy 4y agoNot quite. Singapore Airlines continued to fly a lot of near-empty planes to Australia during the pandemic, and delivered the first load of Pfizer. I believe Qatar kept flying also. Qantas basically ceased all international operations except when underwritten by the government.
- anthonyshort 4y agoI believe it was saying that Qantas was the only Australian-owned airline operating long haul flights during the pandemic.
- madeofpalk 4y agoQantas was operating repatriation flights back to Australia during the pandemic on behalf of DFAT.
- testrun 4y agoI am glad you escaped. I am an Australian.
- ghiculescu 4y agolol, this attitude is why so many Aussies don’t want to go back.
- 6nf 4y agoYup. I'm in Sydney and it's one of the most disappointing things about Australians. The inability or unwillingness to understand things like this.
- testrun 4y agoWhat is there to understand? Person A does not like Australia, and leave. Good for him/her and good for Australia. If you don't like , you don't like.
- ghiculescu 4y agoHaha I remember bumper stickers that said that. There was a lot of “you are a bad person for leaving” during Covid, as if getting out of the locked down country wasn’t a logical move.
- 6nf 4y agoSee what I mean :/
- ulfw 4y agoPlenty of Qatar flights during that time. Maybe you headed to the US, thus United.