Great news as due to “low demand,” Qantas will stop operating its Sydney-Shanghai flights on July 28. However, if the market recovers completely, the service may be restored at a later time.
The Covid-19 pandemic caused the flights to be suspended for more than three years before they were finally resumed in late October.
According to a network update released on Tuesday, flights to Shanghai had been operating at only half capacity for a few months, which led to the decision to reallocate the A330s utilized on the route.
Less than half of the 124,370 short-term visitors from China that went to Australia in March of 2019 traveled there, with 58,240 visitors, according to data from the Bureau of Statistics.
Great to see Albo’s grovelling result in nothing. The schism with China is structural. It has plans to occupy the liberal US hegemony in the Pacific with an illiberal version.
See the disintegrating Solomon Islands democracy for the results.
