Sophia wrote on Mar 13
th, 2020 at 8:54am:
When is our leader going to stop all flights from overseas!!!
Just do it!!!!
Leader? What leader? When is Australia going to get one of those?
Anyway, to answer your question - probably never.
I don't know about the rest of Australia but judging by the nonstop flights in and out of Perth Airport every day it doesn't look like there's been any reduction in flights so far.
Unless the planes are flying half empty (or even completely empty except for the pilots so the airlines don't lose the routes as I've mentioned several days back).
We're getting most of the daily flights over our place because they're busy resurfacing the main runway between 8am and 5pm Monday to Saturday till March 26th and they're using the shorter cross runway.
Wonder how much the resurfacing is costing? With the expected downturn in travel perhaps they should have postponed the resurfacing and spent the money on other things - like screening passengers more carefully for coronavirus.
But, being a government "thing" it was probably already contracted to be done some time ago so they have to go ahead with it regardless of the cost and the downturn in air travel (if it ever happens, of course).