First class products, shame the service doesn’t match it!
Yes. This makes temperatures in the low 30s perfectly fine, especially if you get a night around 13-15. But the ‘old’ January average at Canberra was only 28; since 2008 it’s been 31. That’s quite a dramatic increase any way you slice it. Bungendore is still just on the right side of 30 except in the very hottest months. Last Jan was 29.7 compared to 31.7 for Canberra Airport and not much warmer than Oberon’s 29.4
Canberra Airport got to 44C last summer with a couple of other days above 40; the highest in Bungendore was ‘only’ 41. So a 45 in Canberra isn’t out of the question.
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It certainly is a nice little city. We went in 2014 as part of a school trip and it was very pleasant overall.
Although the place is so small that the accommodation we stayed in was in NSW rather than ACT, so it’s probably best for a short (aka 2-3 days) stay at most.
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Though everywhere is getting hotter. Not just Canberra.
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Towns with good exposure to Bass Strait or the Southern Ocean are warming much slower in summer than other places. Coastal VIC west of Bairnsdale, SE SA, Albany and most of northern/western Tasmania are in this category. I agree coastal NSW isn’t far behind inland NSW. Ideally I would spend the summer months in northern Tasmania or southern VIC, but you can’t have everything.
I’m hoping VIC sorts itself out so that I can visit the VIC Alps in February (fires permitting). Hoping to base myself at Dinner Plain. 1500 m ASL so nice and cool. I’ve never visited that area apart from Bright.
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Qantas has announced further redundancy’s
Surprised they didn’t do this at the same time they sold off catering and other in-flight service divisions some years ago.
Apparently this guy really wanted to go to Canberra…
The Warrnambool man went to the South Albury border checkpoint just before noon Monday, saying he wanted to drive to Canberra but didn’t have a permit.
Police chased the man and successfully deflated one tyre using road spikes, but they say the driver wasn’t deterred and the pursuit continued another 200km until the car ran out of fuel near Jugiong
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The Ghan departed Adelaide for Darwin today. It was the first trip since mid March when it, The Overland and The Indian Pacific was halted due to border restrictions caused by COVID-19 outbreak. ABC reports every passenger will have their temperatures checked on arrival, and they will be allocated different dining and lounge access times to comply with new government regulations.
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The emergency period covers restrictions on overseas travel, restrictions on cruise ships arriving in Australia, protections for the supply and sale of certain essential goods and restrictions on retail stores at international airports.
Bain Capital has officially bought Virgin Australia for $3.5 billion after creditors gave the go ahead today.
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was supposed to be flying to london via dubai tomorrow morning 
not happening now obviously
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VA has cut 8 regional destinations and their Sydney-Tonga route.
The airline today announced it would scrap regional flights to Uluru, Tamworth, Port Macquarie, Albury, Hervey Bay, Cloncurry, Mount Isa and Mildura for the “foreseeable future”.
Additionally, its international service from Sydney to Tonga will not be resuming.
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The petition can be seen at the Qantas website: https://www.qantas.com/au/en/about-us/safely-open-our-borders.html
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Oh FFS. Which other vested interests are going to be making demands next?
Tiger Airways has ceased operations after nearly 13 years.
https://www.9news.com.au/national/tigerair-shuts-down-as-virgin-australia-announces-closure-of-budget-airline-amid-coronavirus-pressure/098bed66-62a9-4a7a-aaa8-2e22459b792b
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