There is certainly no confirmation that domestic travel will return by next month, but Jetstar and Qantas have started opening up more domestic routes from June.
While the Aussie airlines hadn’t cut their domestic routes completely, they are now adding more domestic routes back from June 1.
This includes flights to and from Darwin from all capital cities in Australia.
Jetstar is also resuming daily services from Perth to Melbourne from June 1.
Both the Northern Territory and Western Australia have done extremely well in managing COVID-19.
The Northern Territory has been most successful, recording no deaths from the virus and absolutely no community transmission.
In fact, the Northern Territory will become the first state to resume some sense of normality with all businesses set to reopen over the next five weeks.
This doesn’t mean people from other areas of Australia will necessarily be able to enter the Northern Territory (although Qantas and Jetstar’s flight offerings may
As to when domestic travel resumes across Australia, well only the federal government can confirm when those travel bans might be loosened.
One thing is for sure though, we certainly won’t be taking domestic travel for granted again!