The first Qantas flight to the Northern Territory will be a flight from Sydney arriving this evening.

The resumption of services follows the decision by Qantas management to ground it's entire fleet on Saturday.

Northern Territory Airports management say no other Qantas services will operate today.

Alice Springs services will resume tomorrow.

QantasLink flights between Darwin, Cairns, Alice Springs, Uluru and Perth are continuing as normal.

The Northern Territory Tourism Minister has welcomed the decision by Fair Work Australia to terminate all industrial action by Qantas employees.

The grounding of the Qantas fleet couldn't have come at a worse time for Malarndirri McCarthy.

She's in Sydney for the launch of Lonely Planet's latest publication which names Darwin as one of the top 10 cities in the world to visit.

"It's been an incredibly regrettable time no doubt for travellers around the world, and there's certainly good news now with the knowledge that the planes will be up and flying perhaps later today," Ms McCarthy said.

The Chamber of Commerce says the Northern Territory may need to reduce its reliance on Qantas to protect its economy.

The Territory Government estimates the grounding of Qantas planes over the weekend prevented 1,000 people from travelling to the Territory.

The Chamber's chief executive Chris Young says the Government and businesses should try to attract and support other carriers to diversify the market.

"It does from the point of view of Darwin, I guess, reveal to us that we are heavily reliant on a carrier, on a single carrier and we need to obviously see what other strategies we can put in place to attract additional carriers to travel in and out of Territory destinations," Mr Young said.

Meanwhile hundreds of rural doctors are still stranded in Alice Springs.

The doctors had travelled to Alice Springs for a conference only to find they had no way to get home because of the industrial dispute.

The Rural Doctors Association says many of the 300 delegates are trying to return to hospitals and practices around Australia and the situation will leave small towns and hospitals across regional Australia short-staffed this week.

Dr Rod Martin from Armidale in New South Wales says he will now get home three days late and the situation will be disruptive for his patients.

"For a day I've probably got 32 patients booked ... So the practice staff are going to have to shuffle them to other days and cancel them," he said.

"If there's urgent ones, [I'll] probably get them seen by one of the other doctors in town."

Meanwhile, the Alice Springs Hospital had to do without two locum doctors who could not fly in.

Dr Jenny May from New South Wales says some stranded doctors wanted to cover at the local hospital, but most do not have the required 'working with children' cards they need to work in the Territory.

"Rural doctors are inventive so we should be able to find someone with the appropriate skills and the appropriate cards and qualifications and you know, help the locals out," she said.