Qantas launches 'mystery flights' to nowhere to improve tourism
Qantas is launching "mystery flights" so that they can bolster household tourism across Australia and spark nostalgia among passengers. The flights will get on one of three Qantas Boeing 737 planes from Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney with economy fares start at AD 737 (GBP 413, USD 577).
The all-day package includes activities that range from wine-making and gourmet lunches, to snorkelling on tropical islands.
Airlines over the region are coming up with different strategies to tackle the pandemic-induced travelling plunge.
Qantas was among the first airlines to offer flights to nowhere, which take off and land in the same airport after low-level fly-bys of iconic Australian landmarks. The mystery flights will be the Australian airline's latest move to attract extra passengers into flying.
With international borders unlikely to reopen until 2022, Qantas has asked the federal government for certainty over domestic travel now that Australia's Covid-19 vaccine rollouts are under way.
"What we are trying to find can be an assurance that at a point in time, or at a spot found in the vaccine rollout, even more border closures will get ruled out," stated Andrew Parker, Group Executive, Qantas, adding, "Travellers happen to be confused by a good patchwork of speedily changing restrictions and so are understandably worried about being locked out of their own house state or intended vacation spot.”
Source: bangladeshmonitor.com.bd
