After being called out for taking an early holiday to Hawaii while Australia continues to be ravaged by bushfires, Scott Morrison has sheepishly delivered an apology (which was a bit tone-deaf TBH) before declaring he’s cutting his vacay short to come home ASAP.
Now that’s nice and all, except for the fact that Scotty appears to be taking his sweet time getting back. An unverified Twitter user shared some photos of someone who looks remarkably like Scott Morrison just chilling in Hawaii, hours after the PM delivered his apology and said he was going home.
Now we can’t exactly confirm whether or not this bloke is Scott Morrison or not, though we can say that the resemblance is uncanny. But in a startling twist of events, political editor Annika Smethurst has posted a tweet stating that Scotty was spotted in the lift of a Hawaii hotel the morning after his sheepish apology.
What this tells us is that Scotty either appears to be really taking his time coming back home, his definition of ASAP is different to everyone else’s, or perhaps he simply couldn’t get a flight back home on such short notice.
Since bushfires is no laughing matter and Scott Morrison did indeed say he’s doing all he could to come back to Australia, we decided to check the number of commercial flights (since he flew to Hawaii on a commercial flight, and in business class no less) that have run from when Scotty apologised to the time of writing.
Taking into account the 21-hour time difference and the 11-ish hour flight time, there were at least five commercial flights that could’ve gotten Scotty back to Sydney anywhere between 3:45pm to 8pm:
- 20th December – Honolulu to Sydney via Jetstar – estimated arrival time: 3:45pm
- 20th December – Honolulu to Sydney via Qantas – estimated arrival time: 5:35pm
- 20th December – Honolulu to Sydney via Hawaiian Airlines – estimated arrival time: 7:45pm
- 21st December – Honolulu to Sydney via Qantas – estimated arrival time: 5:35pm
- 21st December – Honolulu to Sydney via Hawaiian Airlines – estimated arrival time: 7:45pm
With at least two flights a day running at the same times, surely ol’ mate could’ve gotten himself on one of them.
Then there’s also the Australian Defence Force option, which could’ve given him a lift home seeing as how Scott Morrison has them at his disposal. He could’ve literally been home right now instead of standing at some Hawaiian hotel lobby waiting for an Uber to the airport.
Now this might be seen as a waste of government resources but taking into account the fact that Australia is literally on fire, a state of emergency has been called, and the country’s leader is MIA, not to mention Scotty’s vow to come home ASAP, hitching a ride via the Defence Force seems like the better option than a commercial flight.
Either way, we know this much: Australia is still ravaged by bushfires, Scott Morrison isn’t here, and it seems like he’s taking his sweet time coming home despite all the options available to get him back to Sydney ASAP.
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