happypig
Staring at the rude boys
Without going into details, how easy (or should that be how difficult) is it for an Australian citizen to fly back home at the moment ?
[Travel] Flying to Australia in the current climate.
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Most countries are still operating some repatriation flights, being organised by the Govnt in conjunction with the airlines (pal of mine is involved in organising them) - seems any citizens can seek to return to their home country........
The Maharajah of Sydney
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Australian Government announced a series of repatriation flights a few days ago.
Two-week isolation period on arrival - bused straight to designated hotels for quarantine.
No flights to Sydney - want to spread the quarantine load across the country;
https://samchui.com/2020/04/05/australian-government-funded-repatriation-flights/#.Xos_NGBS-Hs
List of Australian Government Funded Repatriation Flights
April 5, 2020
Qantas and Virgin Australia will operate a total of 13 flights per week, to bring stranded Australians home from coronavirus-stricken countries. The Australian Government has agreed to subsidise most, but not all, of the cost of the services during the coronavirus crisis. Passengers on-board will pay a given amount as mandated by the airline.
Qantas
The flights can only be booked through qantas.com. All passengers returning to Australia will be subject to two-weeks of supervised quarantine, like all other overseas arrivals. Australian citizens cannot depart Australia, only foreign nationals.
Customers will not be able to book into particular cabins, such as business or premium economy, with a set fare for everyone.
London – Melbourne (via Perth)
10 return flights per week for the foreseeable future
(NO disembarkation in Perth)
$1500 AUD ($900 USD) per seat
Los Angeles – Brisbane
1 return flight per week
$1000 AUD ($600 USD) per seat
Hong Kong – Melbourne
2 return flights per week
$1000 AUD ($600 USD) per seat
Hong Kong – Brisbane
2 return flights per week
$1000 AUD ($600 USD) per seat
Auckland – Melbourne
2 return flights per week
$300-400 AUD ($180-240 USD) per seat
Auckland – Brisbane
2 return flights per week
$300-400 AUD ($180-240 USD) per seat
It is understood that none of the flights are going to Sydney, because the government wants to spread quarantine to other states.
Qantas will use their Boeing 787-9s to operate the services but because of a pause in licensing arrangements, by the airline to save money during the coronavirus crisis, seat-back in-flight entertainment screens will not be in operation.
A basic food and drink service will be provided and there will be no frequent flyer points or status credits applied for the flights.
“Qantas is proud to be operating repatriation flights for the Australian Government. Maintaining strategic air connections from Australia to hubs in the UK, US, Hong Kong and New Zealand will enable essential travel and freight to continue during this crisis,”
Qantas Group spokesman
Qantas-operated repatriation flights
Virgin Australia
Los Angeles – Brisbane
1 return flight per week
Price unknown
Hong Kong – Brisbane
2 return flights per week
Price unknown
“We are pleased to support the government in getting Australians home and maintain important freight links into the country.”
Virigin Australia spokeswoman
Virgin Australia-operated repatriation flights
Under the deal with the government, Australian taxpayers will cover the cost of the outbound flights and any shortfall in the cost of operating the inbound flights.
Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said the services would build on the $1 billion AUD ($601 million) in support the government had already committed to Australia’s aviation industry.
Foreign Affairs Minister, Marise Payne, said that constructive discussions were continuing, with Virgin Australia and Qantas, about other services to less accessible destinations, like South America and the Pacific Islands.
Just to reiterate, under current travel restrictions, Australian citizens (including dual-citizens with an Australian passport) CANNOT leave Australia.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Great. So Maty can't return to play in the mooted behind closed doors fiasco.
Seems a cluster**** that this has happened. Also Maty is in Sydney so presumably made his own way there - rather than repatriation ?
Australia are only just getting started too and heading into Winter so will be interesting to see how this pans out.
Can't he?
Those are current restrictions and the talk I've seen of the behind closed doors stuff has suggested June fixtures.
Does seem slightly risky though, no?
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Just an assumption that the Australia curve will be behind ours.
We don't have a lot of information to go on, but I imagine the club would only sanction it if they saw the risk as negligible.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Tony will have to sneak Maty aboard his privately hired jumbo as cabin crew ?
Tokyohands
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Or he could just slide into his hand luggage.
southstandandy
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June of which year? There can't seriously be any football by June of this year even if behind closed doors. If one player is infected but unknown he has the potential to infect not only his own squad but then the opposition etc etc. Would the season then get paused again?
Unless they're going to reinvent the game with 2 meter social distancing grids marked out on the pitch, I just can't see this being viable for several months. I seriously think next season is unlikely to start on time as things stand.
Maty might as well stay 'down under' and have his Christmas there as can't see any football being played until 2021.
To be fair, we already seem to be flattening the curve, but it is a long way from being done yet.
June this year is being mooted and reported by several places over the past couple of days...
The Premier League are in ‘advanced talks’ with the government over plans to resume the season in June.
All 20 clubs were told to prepare for a return in June after the Premier League reached a ‘tentative’ agreement with the government that would allow matches to be played behind-closed-doors, according to the Mirror.
The season has been suspended since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic reached the UK in early March and there was an initial dispute over how the season should be finished.
However, after agreeing that the campaign must be finished by whatever means, the Premier League’s focus has been on a safe return and the government is forecasting for the ‘peak’ of the pandemic to hit in around 10-14 days in the UK.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/05/premier-league-clubs-12513622/
All 20 clubs were told to prepare for a return in June after the Premier League reached a ‘tentative’ agreement with the government that would allow matches to be played behind-closed-doors, according to the Mirror.
The season has been suspended since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic reached the UK in early March and there was an initial dispute over how the season should be finished.
However, after agreeing that the campaign must be finished by whatever means, the Premier League’s focus has been on a safe return and the government is forecasting for the ‘peak’ of the pandemic to hit in around 10-14 days in the UK.
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/05/premier-league-clubs-12513622/
Rules here right now are Aussies, or permanent residents, cannot leave, end.
Yeah, that was covered above.
But June is still some time away given how fast things move with this story.
The club must have sanctioned his travel, so I can only guess that they did so believing that if football is to resume then it's also likely that he would be able to travel back.
Completely this.
I have a holiday booked, North Devon, August. There is no chance.