If you are planning to return to Australia after July 14th or booked on a flight to australia after this date , you need to keep your options Open. Either you are going to pay a heavy amount for this or see your booked ticket being cancelled !
Why ? Supply will be halved after this date , i.e. Australian goverment has decided on 2nd July that, the passenger arrival cap will be limited after this date !
Though, Airlines have been warned against profiteering from the situation , desperate and stranded Australians will definitely try to get home before passenger arrival caps are halved in 11 days time, and situation might get worse when some carriers opt to stop passenger flights to Australia altogether.
Ticket prices for London to Sydney flights over the next fortnight jumped multiple times on Saturday, at times as high as AU$38,000 (NZ$40,000), the day after Australian Prime Minister announced a restricted arrival for inbound passengers, to just 3000 from 14th July onwards, to combat the Contagious Covid-19 Delta Variant.
Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt warned airlines against price gouging in the wake of the new passenger limits. “I hope there is nobody who seeks a commercial advantage from difficult circumstances and that’s a strong, clear message,” he said on Saturday.
Drastic Snapping of the cap on commercial flight arrivals by half will only increase the difficulty 34,000 stranded Australians already face in returning home.
The availability of commercial flights is already very low and prices are unaffordable for many at the moment. And with aircrafts designed to carry 350 or more flying vast distances with as few as 25 paying passengers on board, many airlines are weighing up whether they continue their flights to Australia.
Online searches for flights into Melbourne and Sydney from the US and Britain showed airlines were advertising one-way tickets for tens of thousands of dollars in some cases.
Travellers wanting to get from London to Sydney before July 14, when the travel caps will be halved, will have to pay anywhere from AU$1500 to almost AU$38,000 (on July 13) for flights with multiple layovers.
Thousands of Australian citizens and permanent residents who have tickets booked after July 14 are anxiously waiting to hear if they will be bumped off their flights.
It is understood that, flights booked up until July 14 will go ahead as scheduled and flights that are part of the trans-Tasman bubble will not be included in the new cap rules.
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