For anyone heading to PNG (there are daily flights), this is also used by Air Niugini for passengers in business class, Destinations Gold and (quirkily) any Qantas frequent flyers (Silver and above or QF Club members) flying on an Air Niugini ticket.

I went to Amsterdam in January and was a bit disappointed. The tourist tax (not included in quoted hotel rates) is distastefully high and the post-Brexit immigration queue (after my very delayed KLM flight from the UK) did not encourage future stopovers. Even the Metro shut down for half an hour ...

Have the international carriers who fly to Australia agreed to this? What happens if Qatar and Singapore Airways drop Australia? Surely they will consider focusing their efforts on regions that are opening up rather than shutting down.

Alan Joyce was aiming to pressure the Federal Govt and justify his redundancies- he was not aiming to provide impartial analysis on the outlook for Australia's travel sector. As I am sure he realises (though Australia's Minister for Tourism apparently does not), European and many other global tr...

Unless there is a genuine second wave globally, it's very likely Australia's borders will open much sooner. Countries in Europe that have been far more affected than Australia are already opening up for tourism with no quarantine. If that happens smoothly the pressure on the Australian government...

We don't know yet how much our weather saved us (it was late summer here v late winter in the northern hemisphere when this really kicked off).

I love Noumea. It does help if you speak a bit of French.One other attraction is authentic French hypermarkets (with subsidised/French mainland prices). Think great value French wine you cannot find in Australia, and huge cans of duck confit which you can just about get through Australian customs...