How to access one of the 800,000 cheap flights in Australia's tourism bailout package

An initial list of 13 destinations for the half-price flights has been released, but the government says more locations could be added

Australians will be able to access half-priced flights to a handful of regional tourist destinations after the government announced it would subsidise certain routes as part of a $1.2bn support package for the tourism sector ravaged by state and international border closures.

While the prime minister, Scott Morrison, labelled the airfare initiative - which includes subsidising 800,000 domestic airfares - a ticket to recovery", tourism and hospitality leaders have criticised the package for only targeting aviation businesses. They have warned it won't do enough to save jobs after the jobseeker wage subsidy is cut off at the end of March.