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Having escaped Australia during the middle of the pandemic, I'd like to correct this article: Australia's only long-haul carrier during the pandemic was United.

Thanks United for getting me out of Australia!

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Qantas was operating repatriation flights back to Australia during the pandemic on behalf of DFAT.

I believe it was saying that Qantas was the only Australian-owned airline operating long haul flights during the pandemic.

I am glad you escaped. I am an Australian.

lol, this attitude is why so many Aussies don’t want to go back.

Yup. I'm in Sydney and it's one of the most disappointing things about Australians. The inability or unwillingness to understand things like this.

What is there to understand? Person A does not like Australia, and leave. Good for him/her and good for Australia. If you don't like , you don't like.

Haha I remember bumper stickers that said that.

There was a lot of “you are a bad person for leaving” during Covid, as if getting out of the locked down country wasn’t a logical move.

See what I mean :/

Not quite. Singapore Airlines continued to fly a lot of near-empty planes to Australia during the pandemic, and delivered the first load of Pfizer. I believe Qatar kept flying also.

Qantas basically ceased all international operations except when underwritten by the government.

Plenty of Qatar flights during that time. Maybe you headed to the US, thus United.

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