{"id":16527,"date":"2020-03-29T02:45:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2020\/mar\/28\/stranded-britons-quoted-40000-each-to-fly-home-from-new-zealand"},"modified":"2020-03-29T02:45:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T17:45:31","slug":"stranded-britons-quoted-40000-each-to-fly-home-from-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=16527","title":{"rendered":"Stranded Britons quoted \u00a340,000 each to fly home from New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office accused of failing thousands marooned by pandemic around the world<\/p>\n<p>Britons stranded abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic are being faced with flights home costing more than \u00a340,000, prompting a wave of accusations that the Foreign Office is failing to adequately support people desperate to come home.<\/p>\n<p>Britons in New Zealand told the<em> Observer<\/em> that the only available flights to the UK are prohibitively priced with even the cheaper tickets costing as much as \u00a315,000. A Qatari Airlines flight from Auckland to London on 31 March was priced at NZ$83,534 (\u00a340,096).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2020\/mar\/28\/stranded-britons-quoted-40000-each-to-fly-home-from-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Office accused of failing thousands marooned by pandemic around the worldBritons stranded abroad due to the coronavirus pandemic are being faced with flights home costing more than \u00a340,000, prompting a wave of accusations that the Foreign Offic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,62,56,61,527,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-india","category-new-zealand","category-south-and-central-asia","category-travel","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16528,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527\/revisions\/16528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}