Qantas Plans Vaccine Requirement for All International Flyers
Photo Credit: Qantas may be the first international airline to mandate vaccines for passengers. Flickr / mikecogh
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Vaccine mandates are the next big thing for the travel industry with many companies requiring staff get their jabs. Now Qantas may be the first to take the logical next step with a mandate that passengers on international flights do the same.
Qantas Airways may become one of the first airlines in the world to mandate vaccines for passengers when it resumes long-haul international flights later this year.
“Qantas will have a policy that internationally, we will only be carrying vaccinated passengers," CEO Alan Joyce told the Trans - Tasman Business Circle on Tuesday.
Joyce's comments come as Australia evaluates plans to reopen its border in December. The country has been closed to non-citizens — with the exception of a short-lived travel bubble with New Zealand —
