Eager southerners willing to gamble that Queensland's borders will open on July 1 are booking flights to the Sunshine Coast.
Jetstar has been advertising return flights to Maroochydore from Sydney and Melbourne and car rental companies, which have not had bookings in months, are also receiving inquiries.
A Sunshine Coast Airport spokesperson, however, was not aware of the flights and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk had yet to say when borders would reopen.
Jetstar has advised the flights might be cancelled.
Brett Edwards's son, Clayton, has already told his parents he has a flight from Melbourne to Maroochydore in July.
"He is working on the premise borders will be opened at the end of the month," Mr Edwards said.
"It seems odd the airport is saying they don't know anything about the flights and Jetstar has the flights advertised.
"He has seen them for $250 return from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast. My wife is happy as we haven't seen him for a while."
Sunshine Coast Airport head of corporate relations Ayllie White said it was not unusual for airlines to sell flights that might not eventuate.
"Unfortunately, for those who are getting their hopes up, it is common in the industry in the way booking engines work in the airline," she said.
Rental companies getting excited
Rad car hire's John Williams yesterday started receiving new car-hire bookings from July 1 from people in Melbourne.
"I got hold of the airport and they didn't know anything about it," Mr Williams aid.
But when he checked on Jetstar's website, the flights were advertised.
The car-hire business has been struggling through the pandemic.
"This is the first booking we've seen in 13 weeks. It's one third of our annual income that is gone," he said.
"We got quite excited to see one come through yesterday."
A Jetstar spokesperson said that as soon as the company made any decision to cancel flights, customers would be contacted "via email and offered a range of options".
Jetstar announced in March it would suspend many domestic services, but its team "monitored and assessed border restrictions, travel demand and many other factors to progressively add flights".
"For the July period, we announced we will operate close to 40 per cent of the domestic flights we offered pre-COVID-19," the spokesperson said.
