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Stuck in Japan.. how to get back to HK?

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  1. #21

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    If it is any consolation even Airlines are not checking if the airports are open....

    The low-cost carrier resumed services from Düsseldorf to Sardinia, Italy, on Saturday -- but was forced to turn around at its destination because Olbia Airport is still closed.

    Flight EW9844 set off on the 730-mile (1,170km) flight to Sardinia's Olbia Airport on the morning of May 23, but was in Sardinian airspace before being informed by air traffic control that it wasn't open to commercial traffic.

    The Airbus A320 hung around in a holding pattern hoping for permission to land, but no dice.

    A diversion was proposed to Cagliari, some 120 miles away, reports Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, but the flight crew opted to cut its losses and head back to Düsseldorf.

    This little sightseeing tour of western Europe, for the benefit of the A320's load of two Sardinian passengers, took a total of four hours and ten minutes.
    https://edition.cnn.com/travel/artic...bia/index.html

    (And ... two sardines in a flying tin can ... )

  2. #22

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    Is now the time to be cheap?

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