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Agreed. It's the leak to manage expectations. Mandatory vaccination for aged care workers is a significant effort which is going to cause some grief to the industry. Necessary yes, easy to implement no. Hence the elongated discussion.
Hopefully not a dumb question, but how does rescheduling work out for all of this? For instance, I booked my hotels via Hotels.com and the rate is non-refundable. I'm guessing if the restrictions remain in place I should be able to get a refund given this situation is out of my control? Similarly, for my reward flight to LDH can QF simply move me to another date without any change fees or differential in points/fees (I "purchased" the reward tickets back when QF was running the 30% off promo for domestic reward bookings).
As much as it pains me to say it -
The quickest rate to get to a positivity rate of 20% is to pretend that a .0003% positivity rate means nothing, just ask Melbourne!
Our experience was that this was a bit of a PITA. The best option was to call both the hotel direct and then QF. From a hotel perspective we paid a supplement to the property to change the date, so from Booking.com perspective, we stayed in August, even though we delayed for 9 months that was arranged direct.
You are quite right! If more people were vaccinated, particularly returning travellers and those working in the airports and quarantine system, all of this lockdown and mask-wearing nonsense would've been a thing of the past months ago. In particular, I bring to your attention a tidbit from the NSW Health press conference from earlier today where the Premier mentioned in the West Hoxton superspreader event of the 30 people who attended, 24 were infected. What do you think the 6 who weren't infected had in common? They all got their jab, with 5 being fully vaxed and one receiving their first short. Anyone saying that vaccination isn't our way out of this mess needs to look at the data, there is reason why Europe has reopened their borders to international travel, why Canadians are allowed to return home without having to quarantine, etc.
Fingers crossed that we can nip this outbreak in the bud. Then again, I had travel booked last December for PER and that got cancelled thanks to that small outbreak. At this point booking anything seems to be a roll of the dice. But I don't mind rolling it as I managed to travel to DRW in April (to gain QF Gold status via status match) plus BNE last month for OzFest. Sure beats looking out the same window in SYD every day
They said With just now.
It is about time she gets off the political soap box, she has been re elected for a few more years so her job and Govt pay rises have been secured. If all our politicians use covid as an election platform we will be in a state of snap lock down for ever and day.
And is there is something is wrong with thisA Sydney cafe has made international news for this hilariously true letter posted in their window, from the Sydney lockdown
. Our PM is in the 4% who has been vaccinated, traveled to the UK for a work conference he was not a part of, went off on an family tree discovery and met up with some Aussies who cannot get home. Makes perfect sense to me 
An Aussie saying it as he/ she sees it.Does anyone on this forum honestly believe QF and VA will survive several more years of flights being cancelled? I'd encourage the PM to talk to the flight attendants and pilots based in Australia and abroad who proudly connect Ozzies to the world and ask them how it feels to be cancelled? What about the many tour operators who have invested heavily in the past several years to serve a growing, international clientele? This is to say nothing of the countless businesses that have been cancelled (albeit temporarily) due to these snap lockdowns.
