Airfares are ‘abnormally high today’ - but they do not have to be, an airline CEO has argued.
Hrdlicka said airfares were about 50 per cent higher than they were pre-COVID, but allowing Qatar — a partner carrier of Virgin — to schedule more flights into Australia would dramatically change that.“Airfares are abnormally high today,” she told ABC Radio on Tuesday.
“Many of the airlines that provided those seats pre-COVID won’t recover that capacity back into Australia,” she said.
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