Originally Posted by jiejie

US Consulate personnel/dependents will of course not be charged for the flight. Private US citizens had to sign a promissory note to pay back the USG. I don't know if they were told the exact amount prior to signing.
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Originally Posted by STS-134

At this point, if I were at WUH, they could have asked for $10K and I'd have paid it. And I'd probably be more relieved to be out of there than I was when I escaped Japan the day after the 2011 earthquake for the cool price of $3K.


That doesn't look fun, but after a week cooped up inside and not being able to go out for fear of catching a deadly virus, I'd probably be pretty relieved to be on that flight, even in a middle seat. And being quarantined in a hangar at ONT on US soil with medical staff on standby would certainly be preferable to being effectively quarantined indoors in a paralyzed city with overwhelmed hospitals that you aren't sure can help you if you get sick.