• Apple Releases iPhone Update Preparing The iPhone 12 For A Post-COVID19 Travel World

    Sep 4, 2020

    When the Australian Federal Government initially launched their COVID19 contact tracing application they touted it to be a fantastic success which would aid Australia’s border reopening and the ability for a business to get back to normal. What the application ended up being as one colossal failure, with the technology being out of date, battery draining and not quite proven to even function correctly. In fact, under 100 cases of COVID19 have been detected as a result of the application. In typical Apple form though, Tim Cook has subtly and near secretly released a solution to that and many other… Read more »

  • Virgin Australia To Return To International Travel With New Zealand And America

    Sep 4, 2020

    Virgin Australia has had a rough year with the introduction of the COVID19 pandemic having battered Australia’s second airline immensely. However post-administration and with new private equity owners who aren’t afraid to spend a buck on the company, Virgin looks to be on its road to becoming a stronger competitor than they were in the past. Part of Virgin’s new grand scheme for their return to travel was to initially fly an all-Boeing 737 fleet and only domestically for at least a year. But CEO, Paul Scurrah, has recently revealed that Virgin does intend to move back to their international… Read more »

  • Rapid COVID Tests Part Of Roadmap To Restart Travel

    Sep 4, 2020

    QANTAS CEO, Alan Joyce, has stated that Rapid COVID testing should form a core part of the roadmap to restart both domestic and international travel. The statement, made at CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit, falls in line with what many other countries who are allowing broad international travel now to implement in their own airports. Japan, for example, requires every entrant into the country to complete a rapid COVID19 test and gets held at the airport until results come back. Joyce also stated that the development could solve the hotel quarantine issue, an issue which is now the subject of… Read more »

  • Regional Victorian Travel And Hospitality Sector Looks To The Future

    Sep 4, 2020

    The Australian travel and hospitality sector penned a passionate letter to state and federal leaders over the past week pleading for them to acknowledge the ongoing issues that the COVID19 pandemic has posed to their sector and to come up with a wide-ranging and longer-term solution to the issue. While acknowledging the similar challenges in fighting the deadly pandemic, the letter does point out that the travel and similar sectors have been doing as much as they possibly can to continue conducting business and to keep the sector as positive as possible. The letter also broadly supports most measures put… Read more »

  • goPassport App Promises Safe Travel To Australia

    Aug 3, 2020

    A consortium of travel and application developers have banded together to develop a solution to the current issues surrounding the roads to restart international travel. The solution, named goPassport, is an intuitive application that promises safe travel for foreigners wishing to visit Australia and Australians alike. goPassport is being sold as a one-stop solution for Australian authorities when assessing entry requirements from a health standpoint to Australia. Features for the software suite include live updates for authorities to any COVID-19 pre-travel tests passengers may be required to take.  That essentially means that authorities will be able to check the live… Read more »

  • Travel Internationally To Recover By 2024

    Aug 3, 2020

    The International Air Transport Association has claimed they are aiming for a full air travel recovery come 2024. The 2024 date, while a year later than originally estimated, is ambitious but many airlines have been in consultation with the Transport Association to make their practices safe for a return to air travel. Despite this the Association has claimed that it will be a turbulent time for airlines, with many operators continuing to burn through cash and planning for an uplift in seated air travel in the years following coronavirus the Association believes that the industry may overall slim down with… Read more »

  • Lounges Still A No Go

    Aug 3, 2020

    QANTAS has announced that they are going to defer the reopening of domestic lounges further. The lounges have been closed now since the Australian Federal Government enforced country wide COVID19 restrictions which effectively shuttered domestic travel at the time. Previously, QANTAS had claimed that their lounges across Queensland would begin opening from the start of July which was later pushed back to August. QANTAS now claims that the earliest these lounges will open is from the start of September, however even that opening time frame has a question over it. The QANTAS club however has previously reopened lounges in some… Read more »

  • The Best Hotel In Sydney Doesn’t Even Have A View

    Aug 3, 2020

    Hotels in the centre of Sydney today tends to be a sore point among many in the modern day. The overall quality of hotels within the centre lacks, severely. And without spending well over $1,000 per night on accommodation like the Park Hyatt (a hotel which is gorgeous and overlooks both the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House) the mid-range 5-star hotel options are extremely limited. However, an independent hotel seems to offer a solution to Sydney’s mediocre offering. A little-known hotel named The Primus which sits towards the south of Pitt Street and near parallel with Cockle Wharf takes… Read more »

  • No Test, No Travel

    Aug 3, 2020

    Middle Eastern airlines Etihad and Emirates have both announced new health policy regarding travellers on the two colossal airlines. Both airlines will now require passengers to present proof of a negative COVID19 test prior to travelling. The airlines have also stated the new policy applies to all customers no matter whether they are travelling in transit or to a direct destination. This also applies to all customers for all countries internationally (including Australians). Many countries have already ratified laws that require their residents to produce a negative COVID19 test prior to travelling, however, the move from Etihad and Emirates is… Read more »

  • A Legend’s Last

    Aug 3, 2020

    Last week QANTAS bid farewell to the last remaining Boeing 747 on their fleet. The flight was met with fanfare as many turned out to view the final flight of a plane which most today grew up with. QANTAS made the decision to retire the Boeing 747 fleet entirely in May after the Coronavirus pandemic decimated international flightpaths worldwide. The retirement was brought forward multiple years as a month later QANTAS made a second decision to ground the vast majority of their entire fleet in airline storage Australia and worldwide. The vast majority of the 747’s are to be retired… Read more »