Three flights left Christchurch International Airport for Australia on Monday morning with the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble. Trans-Tasman flights have instantly tripled with the opening of the travel bubble – Stuff’s data visualisations show where. The final week before the trans-Tasman bubble opened, just 57 flights left New Zealand bound for Australia, with another 118 arriving from Australian cities. READ MORE:* Trans-Tasman bubble: Emotions run high in Sydney as first New Zealand travel bubble flight departs* Trans-Tasman bubble: Christchurch travellers delighted to be in the air again* We're able to travel to Australia again - now we need to open a Pacific islands bubbleAll that changed this week. The opening of the bubble means that in the next week, trans-Tasman flights will account for nearly 80 per cent of all air traffic to and from New Zealand.

Source: Stuff April 19, 2021 00:23 UTC