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Check in but never leave: Taiwan offers fake flights for travel-starved tourists
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Starved of the travel experience during the coronavirus lockdown? One Taiwanese airport has the solution - a fake itinerary where you check in, go through passport control and security and even board the aircraft. You just never leave.
Taipeis downtown Songshan airport on Thursday began offering travelers the chance to do just that, with some 60 people eager to get going, albeit to nowhere.
Around 7,000 people applied to take part, the winners chosen by random. More fake flight experiences will take place in coming weeks.
I really want to leave the country, but because of the epidemic lots of flights cant fly, said Hsiao Chun-wei, 38, who brought her young son.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-airport/check-in-but-never-leave-taiwan-offers-fake-flights-for-travel-starved-tourists-idUSKBN2430RV
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Starved of the travel experience during the coronavirus lockdown? One Taiwanese airport has the solution - a fake itinerary where you check in, go through passport control and security and even board the aircraft. You just never leave.
Taipeis downtown Songshan airport on Thursday began offering travelers the chance to do just that, with some 60 people eager to get going, albeit to nowhere.
Around 7,000 people applied to take part, the winners chosen by random. More fake flight experiences will take place in coming weeks.
I really want to leave the country, but because of the epidemic lots of flights cant fly, said Hsiao Chun-wei, 38, who brought her young son.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan-airport/check-in-but-never-leave-taiwan-offers-fake-flights-for-travel-starved-tourists-idUSKBN2430RV
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"You Can Check In Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave..." (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jul 2020
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Mariana
(14,854 posts)1. That's ... really weird. nt.
captain queeg
(10,084 posts)2. Everyone misses that part of traveling. Being sarcastic.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)5. You're not kidding.
Can you imagine if you could "have the experience" of waiting in line to get into Disneyland, buying a ticket, and then your experience was over?
fleur-de-lisa
(14,624 posts)10. They should develop a virtual dentist visit next
including a root canal.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)3. One day psychiatrists will write papers about this.
Nay
(12,051 posts)7. No kidding. This is crazy-level strange.
Who misses being squashed onto a plane?
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)4. Well Americans can't go anywhere at the moment even with a passport...
virtual trips with a real feel. My tour company keeps putting them out.
sop
(10,090 posts)6. We really need made-up news broadcasts, pretending they're reporting November's election
results and telling us Trump lost in a landslide. Some days the thought of that is the only thing keeping me sane.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)8. Total Recall, without all the good fake memories...
Hugin
(33,032 posts)9. How hilarious while still being...
therapeutic.
Scratch that itch!