New Zealand is only option abroad for Qantas until ‘21

QANTAS has removed international flight bookings – bar New Zealand – from its website until March 28, 2021.

The move comes weeks after group CEO Alan Joyce (pictured) said services overseas would probably not resume for another 12 months.

According to Executive Traveller, while flights overseas to the US, Asia and Europe can still be made through the Qantas website, the flights will be serviced with partner airlines such as Emirates and Cathay Pacific.

The closing of flights and changing of bookings isn’t unaxed expected, given Mr Joyce signalled that all international flying would be suspended until the middle of 2021.

Last month, the national carrier announced it was grounding 100 aircraft in the Mojave Desert in the US, had at least 20 per cent of its workforce and parked some of the airline’s fleet of A380s (used for flagship international routes) for “at least three years”.

Mr Joyce said that while a trans-Tasman route might be operational before mid-2021, other popular routes around the world wouldn’t restart “in any real size (until) July next year”.

“We have to be realistic about it and say with what’s happening in the rest of the globe, it is probably an extended period of time,” Mr Joyce said.