More than 100,000 of the federal government’s 800,000 discounted airfares to 15 regional destinations including Cairns, Hobart and Darwin sold before midday on Thursday, with one-way fares starting at about $55.
Despite the strong start to the aviation stimulus package, industry leaders continued to decry the absence of hard-hit Sydney and Melbourne on the destination list, as well as the end of JobKeeper for an industry that employs more than 660,000 people.
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