Australia recently announced that it was removing its face mask requirement on domestic flights from 9th September 2022, but peculiarly the federal government was apparently maintaining its policy for all passengers to wear a mask on inbound international flights, which was a strange inconsistency.
That’s been resolved today with the announcement that this edict too will be dropped, also (and quite logically) effective from 9th September 2022.
For Singapore Airlines, this will mean over 110 weekly services from Changi to Australia, which currently require masks to be worn by all passengers, will become mask-optional.
This will mean over 50% of all Singapore Airlines passenger flights across the network will have no mask-wearing requirement by tomorrow, up from 40% when the carrier’s mask mandate was first replaced with a ‘destination-specific’ requirement.
Masks no longer required on international flights to Australia
Australia already allows passengers flying out of the country to follow either the airline’s mask-wearing requirements, or those of the country they are travelling to or through, whichever is stricter.
That means in many cases, including for Singapore Airlines services, masks are not required when departing from the country on an international flight.
For flights departing on or after 0.01am Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) on Friday 9th September 2022, which is 10.01pm Singapore Time on Thursday 8th September 2022, the rules will be relaxed.
