Pre-covid

The Cathay Pacific Group expects to resume 70% of pre-COVID passenger capacity levels by end of 2023

The Albanese Government is helping more Australians get travelling again, with passport wait times now back to pre-COVID normal.

Although most schools have returned to pre-COVID procedures, it is still possible that a local COVID outbreak may result in a return to altered arrangements in schools.

As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.

“Let Them All Talk” is as breezy as an ocean cruise (pre-Covid), and mostly a welcome excuse to enjoy its three septuagenarian leads – Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest – as they banter their way across the Atlantic.

In 2023, the first full year after China abandoned its “zero-covid” policy, the total value of BRI [Belt and Road Initiative] investments and construction contracts was $96.3bn, according to recently revised data […] This was still below pre-covid levels, but a big rebound from the pandemic era (up from $75bn in 2022). In 2024 and 2025, BRI engagement surged.