Airlines are hopeful domestic passenger numbers will recover to pre-pandemic levels early next year …….“It’s a big challenge, no doubt about it, but it’s a really exciting time,” says Qantas’ chief pilot, Captain Dick Tobiano. Grounded pilots need to be retrained, mothballed aircraft need to be restarted …

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