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Old Apr 6, 2020 | 3:35 am
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
If you have a viable option to get out I would consider it. To date repatriation flight options seem to be limited to routes with lots of people with the same nationality to make it worthwhile, so ex-RUH seems unlikely.

QR is still flying to AKL (they have almost as many international flights to NZ as Air NZ at the moment!), but don't know how long they will keep doing so.
Getting from Saudi Arabia to Qatar is already tricky under normal circumstances given the blockade, I imagine it might be even trickier now.
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