Running, perhaps sample some of the product post race.
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A bit of a nightmare right now. Iâm hoping this settles down and is a bit simpler mid-2022.
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Someone at work was telling me about all the hurdles her brother had to go through. It sounded like a lot of effort. You need to be on top of so many different requirements before you go and also be ready for where you land and their requirements. Itâs not as easy as going on a trip to multiple countries or destinations anymore. I want to travel but I will hold out until mid next year when hopefully things are a little easier and have settled more.
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Travelling to London or Los Angeles will be equivalent- in logistical terms- to an expedition to Antarctica in the âbefore timesâ. I think I will wait it out.
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Itâs hard enough to do an interstate trip with all the requirements let alone overseas. Whilst applying for an SA border pass from here is easy enough, but I have to wait until 3 days before I return to Qld to fill in the Queensland pass even though Iâm a resident. Fortunately with SA not being a hotspot the testing requirement isnât required like it would be post Christmas in Melbourne.
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Continued border uncertainty between New Zealand and Australia means Air New Zealand must cancel more than 1000 flights through to the end of December 2021.
âNow, due to recent statements by the New Zealand Government that quarantine-free travel between Australia and New Zealand is unlikely to recommence this year, weâve had to make the difficult decision to change our schedule,â said Air New Zealand chief customer and sales officer, Leanne Geraghty.
The airline continues to operate a reduced schedule of flights into Sydney and Melbourne and âred flightsâ from Australia into New Zealand for those with MIQ spots.
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Seems nuts given their vaccination rates are so strong and their daily cases per capita are now higher than Australia.
Time to be brave Jacinda.
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just came back form 4 days down at royal pines resort down the gold coast. Given it was schoolies we were expecting some issues but there were none - perhaps as it is too far from the beach and schoolies hub.
Was a fantastic stay at the hotel and we will be back with the kids.
On saturday night we went to the outback spectacular and it was great - the food (entree is a goate cheese feta and roast veg tart, main is either beef or chicken with roast pumpkin, beans and mash and desert is a choc tart with a caramel sauce)
the show was a little predictable and hokey but was enjoyable and the animals used in the show are amaxzing
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Even longer wait for quarantine-free travel between Australia and NZ.
I think Air New Zealand will have to cancel more flights between December 31 and January 16.
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Probably never considering that even when tourist travel is opened in April, thereâs still a 7 day quarantine period.
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I was thinking of a zoo I went to as a child in country Victoria. I believe it was in Buxton or close to Healesvile and I was just wondering if anyone remembered it or know what happened to it or if itâs still around?
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Could it be Healesville Sanctuary? I believe itâs still operating.
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I didnât think it was quite as far as Healesville. But it might have been. I was really sure it was in Buxton. Does anyone know if there was a âzooâ in Buxton?
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UPDATE 15/12: Northern Territory Health Minister Natasha Fyles yesterday (Tuesday) defended the governmentâs approach to the border, despite criticism about a lack of consultation. She said the government was now reconsidering the rule banning tourists from low-vaccination zones such as Uluru.
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Virgin Australia just announced the major switch of their USA partner from Delta to United Airlines, especially possibly confirming speculation that their own withdrawal from Aus-USA routes may be permanent with the new UA deal (as UA covers more TransPacific routes from SYD and MEL than DLâs sole SYD-LAX route and has a similar sized domestic network to Virginâs outgoing USA partner).
Poster Opinion: The loser however will be BNE/Qld though, UA and VA passengers will be sent via SYD or MEL to connect for the short term unless if Annastacia is wanting to âthrow taxpayer moneyâ to subsidise UA coming to BNE, whilst good for âcompetitionâ in Qld, would be pretty embarrassing for QLD with taxpayers having to pick up the tab for basically âleasingâ UA planes, instead of having UA come to BNE on its own decision and covering all of their operating costs.
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From this posterâs POV: Just join Star Alliance already Virgin 
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Deltaâs product and service especially is much much better however Unitedâs network is much better on the other end.
However I donât think USA travel will be booming for years yet.
I loved the VA/VX combo which I used on many JFK runs. Now Alaska has joined QF.
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Qantas SYD-PER-FCO (Rome) announced as a seasonal, 3x weekly service operating from 22nd June - 6th October.
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Good to have a Qantas flight back to continental Europe. No presence here since the aborted Frankfurt flights a few years back.
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