CV and mad panic behaviour

[LP]

LP, you simply can't.  Unless you want to go bankrupt.  You'd need to triple the operating crew at every port; multiply that by their network ports within Australia and it would kill the industry and any interest in operating into this country.

I can see where this is headed.  Integration of their updated covid clearance certificates within their passports, much like a visa.  That is, just by itself, a ludicrous administration overload.

Unworkable. And that's for starters

Yes, to me it was obviously unworkable, but it has still been proposed.

Even if the cost wasn't an issue you'll have aircrew full of zombies after a heavy couple of weeks, the no shows will go through the roof, the rotating hours and variable workload do not make for a weeks on weeks off scenario like FIFO Miners. Politicians do not get it!

I knew an attendant who had been international at first for years and years, then switched to only domestic doing mostly east coast business flights. Quite awhile back there was some issue that caused a staff shortage on international flights, she had just spent a long few days doing domestic and was due for a long weekend when they asked her to go International. Apparently they can't just ask any attendant and she was only one of a few certified or qualified, etc.. She came straight off the heavy domestic week and did a stint of international between Aust, HK and Paris, and was shattered at the end of it, despite the great money she said never again, and she was very experienced and knew how to manage her way around the situation!