As travelers hit flight restrictions difficult Eight months into a pandemic

curbs travel and border restrictions on his head to make life around the world, with some people to grab it yourself or hire aircraft often pay the regular ticket price to come to their jobs and homes. Eight months into a pandemic, it seems normal that push some people try to travel internationally, with or exchange for a long-delayed business, but essential in which they live. But with the global crown cases exceeded 18 million and rising, airlines are reluctant flights adding to its bare-bones plan and springs virus some countries to introduce new travel rules. The flight paralysis underscores how deep and lasting the damage the pandemic is revealed. The number of international flights to the United States, Australia and Japan fell more than 80% from a year ago, while flights to China by more than 94%, according to the aviation industry database Cirium. Travelers need to be creative to get on a plane. Support groups have sprung up on Facebook and WeChat for those who are stuck thousands of miles were from their jobs, homes and families. To not be able to get tickets, some try to arrange private charter flights, while travel agencies say that bribes with airlines for limited places. Others are shelling out for business or first-class tickets to be averted only because of the lack of adequate documentation. “So many people are with broken families, it is so heartbreaking,” said Ariel Lee, a mother in Shanghai, 1,650 members were able to try a couple of WeChat groups in total to enter China. “The hardest part, there are no clear guidelines and there is no end date to do so.” The hopeful speech corridors and a summer recreation is appeased by a consensus among experts in the aviation sector, which replaced global travel is not effective new start before a vaccine is found. “We will not see a recovery only for international travel in the near future,” said Steven Kwok, associate partner of OC & C Strategy Consultants Ltd. “Makes the pandemic also due to impact about the epidemic -. It causes a slowing global economy, the appetite trip for a longer period is wounded “were the higher prices Chris Wells had stuck in his hometown in Texas for six months, eager to back Search Guangzhou, a city in southern China, where he lived and worked for more than a decade. International travel to China had been captured almost immediately severely restricted by the government to curb imported infections and all seats on flights. Wells, 41, a manager in an international sourcing company, searched and searched for a ticket. The only one he could find: a flight $8,800 one-way first class from Chicago to Shanghai, via Zurich. “It ‘was only space available,” he said. “I would not normally pay that much for a ticket, but I was desperate, so I took the saddle again as I found it,” Cherry Lin, a travel agency based in Shanghai, said that his company paid bribes airlines – more than 10,000 yuan ($1,438) per seat – to get the tickets popular routes such as the US output and Britain who then sell to customers. flight or passenger Cap Set of many countries largely limited places, pushing the rates – a ticket for a direct flight from London to Shanghai is currently going for about $5,000, said Lin, but they are quickly bought. additional seats are likely to take this month to pop up as more new flights Airlines “but still not enough that anyone can easily buy them online,” he said. Changing Rules Jessica Cutrera, 44, an American who has lived for more than Hong Kong a decade, was back in search of the Asian financial center last month, suddenly when the city a negative viral tests for passengers coming from countries requested at risk, including the United States had within 72 hours before boarding and the obligation to comply taken to show the results of a test that travelers submit a letter – signed by a government official – the verification that the laboratory is accredited. The first test results within 72 hours was hard enough that the test should be the USA set in which the results are not usually available one week ago. Then there was the letter. “I called everyone I could find,” he said. “Most offices and agencies have not said, there is no point in making them sign the letter a.” Finally, someone has voted in California sign. So Cutrera flew out of Louisville, Kentucky, in Chicago, and then to Los Angeles, where he ran the test. A few days later she was allowed her flight to Hong Kong to rise, while others are trying to get on the same floor were turned away because they do not have the right papers. Cutrera is proving to be one of the lucky those who remain in limbo. Lucy Parakhina, a 33-year-old Australian photographer had decided to stay in London, where they lived for two years. But in June, they started a round trip to plan when you U.K. work visa expired. Although they managed to buy a one-way ticket from London to Sydney for less than 700 pounds (922) Qatar Airways, which has not been taken from their flight and said it was postponed. He already quit his job in London and gave her apartment and is not income in the British patent to stay beyond September. But with a resurgence of the virus in Australia and shows no signs of ebbing international flights down 92% for the country, it is likely to put a time. “Now the only thing I can do is wait for the relaxation of the policy and my flight to depart as planned,” he said.
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