Pieter Den Heten was offered a ticket home after creating a website collating the stories of Australians stranded overseas. But he turned it down.
The founder of RemoveTheCap.com - a website collating the stories of Australians stranded overseas - has been offered a flight home, months earlier than the flight he had originally booked.
“One minute later … I received a phone call from Qatar [Airways], with an agent wanting to confirm I would be on that flight tomorrow,” he said. This map shows the extent of the Australians stranded abroad, desperate to come home“I won’t speculate whether it was supposed to be a friendly gesture or an attempt to pay me off [or] shut me up, but either way the approach they’ve taken was highly stressful and disturbing,” he said.
The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia estimates there could be as many as 100,000 Australians like Mr Den Heten stranded overseas, but currently only 4,000 people are allowed into Australia per week under a cap set by National Cabinet to ease the burden on COVID-19 quarantine programs. These are the faces of desperate Australians who are stranded abroad and struggling to get home
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