There was a cabin crew base in London. All of the pilots are Australian based. The Perth base was started for just the London flights.
Well at the moment the quarantine is 14 days for both. But, passengers only have to do it once. The crews would have to do it after every flight. So, if your London flight takes a week, then you’re into quarantine for whatever period you want to pick, and then it will be about time to do another flight. Effectively permanent quarantine. No matter how much it’s talked up, there’s no business case in any of this.
I don’t know how much of the travelling public that I would personally represent, but having seen the continual lockdowns, and border closures, I’m not game to leave the state, much less the country. It will take a couple of years of normality before I’d even consider going overseas. I know that many of you cannot wait, but I suspect that there is a much larger cohort who are very fearful of the behaviour that we’ve seen from our governments, and will want some level of certainly of being able to get home before they’ll be travelling anywhere.