Qantas seeks to resume international flights by mid-2021.
The Australian airline Qantas is looking to resume some of its international commercial flights by mid-2021, the airline group’s chief executive officer, Alan Joyce, said Monday.
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The executive declared on local television channel 9 that the plan will depend largely on the availability of the covid-19 vaccine and after Australia closed its international borders in March in the wake of the pandemic, although the airline continued to operate several domestic routes and repatriation flights, EFE reported.
Joyce also noted that studies conducted by Airbus, Boeing and Iarta show that the probability of contracting covid-19 on an airplane is “very low,” insisting that the planes have hospital-grade filters.
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“Air is extracted 20 times and that’s five times every hour. Boeing has shown that sitting next to someone in an airplane is the equivalent of being seven to eight feet away from someone on the ground,” the Qantas representative told the Australian media.
Australia has accumulated more than 27,820 cases of covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, including 907 deaths, of which some 20,349 infections and 819 deaths correspond to the State of Victoria, whose resurgence due to alleged security breaches in quarantine centers triggered a second wave of the new coronavirus in the country.
Currently, the state of South Australia is fighting an outbreak of covid-19, detected more than a week ago and which forced the confinement of its 1.7 million inhabitants for three days to contain its spread and after it was detected that a worker of Spanish nationality and with a temporary visa lied about his contacts.
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