Flights to Australia are so hard to secure, a group of UK-based mums and dads are hoping to charter a plane to get their newborns home in time for Christmas.
'It's going to be a very noisy flight'
Her baby daughter, Ailish, was also born during London's lockdown. Ms McCrossin is desperate to introduce her to her family in Australia."Every day a piece of my heart breaks off because you're being robbed of so many incredible memories." It is not the first time Australians have looked at chartering flights themselves to get home during the pandemic.However, Ms McCrossin's biggest obstacle will be getting permission to land.
However, Australia's National Cabinet has imposed passenger caps on international arrivals to ease the pressure on quarantine facilities, which will remain in place until at least October 24.each state will accept each week. Although in July, Victoria suspended all international arrivals into the state.
Australian Phillip Spivey, who has been "bumped" off seven flights from London to Australia, said it was "terrible".Mr Spivey, who has borrowed money from friends to purchase additional tickets, has only recently secured a flight home via Dubai after trying for four months.
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