Australia’s major airline Qantas will bring forward a series of international flights from Sydney to Singapore, Bangkok, Phuket, Johannesburg, and Fiji. Qantas said on Friday that the changes would enable the airline to bring 11,000 of its employees previously stood down back to work in December—including about 5,000 employees linked to domestic flying and 6,000 linked to international flying. This was not expected until June 2022. The airline made COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for all staff in August. Flights from Sydney to Singapore will be brought forward to Nov. 23, (four weeks earlier); flights from Sydney to Fiji will be brought forward from Dec. 19 to Dec. 7; flights from Sydney to Johannesburg, South Africa, will be brought forward from March to Jan. 5; flights from Sydney to Bangkok will be brought forward to Jan. 14; flights between Sydney and Phuket, Thailand, will be brought forward to Jan. 12. Previously, Qantas …