“That’s the hardest part – you only have 24 hours to put it all together, and someone needs to front up with the money,” Russell said. While she had originally wanted to fly direct to Brisbane, she discovered it was cheaper to fly into Sydney.īut when it came to actually paying the money, many people got cold feet, so in the end she downsized to an eight-seater plane at a total cost of $40,000, through Australian private jet company Airly. She got around 50 messages from those interested, and had initially planned to book a 14-seater plane at a total cost of $85,000. Russell, a travel agent based in Brisbane, had last week posted on a Facebook group for those stranded under the bubble, seeing if anyone would be interested in joining them on a charter flight. She had feared she wouldn’t be home for Christmas otherwise: “I just said to my husband, ‘we need to go, we need to get out of here’,” she said. * Covid-19: Stranded Australians baffled by lack of flights from Covid-free South IslandĪfter having six flights cancelled and missing out on both of Air New Zealand’s red flight releases, she booked a private jet from Auckland to Sydney which took off on Monday carrying Russell, her husband, and five other passengers.
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