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I really question how any international flights into or out of Australia will remain viable for any airline until the situation resolves?
- Australian Government is advising its citizens to reconsider all overseas travel
- Australian Government is imposing 14 day quarantine on all arrivals (including crew??)
Surely that's a recipe for pretty much every airline to halt international flights?
It might be possible for some overseas airlines with overseas crews to come to Australia and turn around without the crews going through immigration.
Reality is if this gets as bad as many expect, Qantas nor Virgin will have the capability to get through this without government help. But it doesn't have to be taps of liquidity from the government in to the airline. There are plenty of things the government can do to protect the airlines, and ultimately the jobs and working people within them, without cash.
At the end of all this, the planes will still exist even if their owners have gone bankrupt. Maybe the days of state owned airlines could return. Or phoenix airlines could buy the planes from their bankrupt predecessors.