Originally Posted by
pw21
As the borders all over the world tightened, some even restricted transit. There are three passengers stranded in Taipei Taoyuan International Airport. Air NZ flew three transit passengers on NZ77 and their ground staff were not aware that Taiwan banned transit. Thus, these three passengers were refused boarding at Taiwan boarders onto Shanghai and Japan.
Air Nz stated that they couldn’t deport them back to Auckland as NZ is currently lock down.
What would happen to these three passengers? They are not allow to transit, nor permit entrance to Taiwan. Also they can not go back to NZ.
passenger info: 1 UK citizen onto Shanghai, 2 Japanese citizens onto Japan
On the day HK imposed 14-day quarantine against the world, HK had a bunch of Mainland passport transit pax from overseas who were boarded on the presumption Mainland passport 7 day landside transit has not been revoked. It has not; however, since they have to be quarantined for 14 days (the landside transit is not sterile - it's just any old bus to the Mainland and you can even make a trip of 7 days in Hong Kong) but their permitted stay is below that, they were not allowed to land.
They made some "peaceful representations".
I read thru the Timatic instructions, the part about "their permitted stay of 7 days is less than the quarantine" was not explicit, I think it's CAA's fault.
Airport Authority Hong Kong seem to agree and managed to persuade Immigration Department to allow four coaches of chartered buses to conduct a sterile transfer of the stranded Mainland passport holders to the Shenzhen Bay border.