I’m Trapped In A Russian Airport
And The US Embassy Told Me
My Best Chance To Get Home
Is To Flee To Finland
BuzzFeed News,
by
Christopher Miller
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
4/2/2020 5:08:06 AM
As he watched his luggage being loaded onto a plane at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo International Airport on March 30, Trenton Thurber felt relieved that he would soon be home in Arizona.
But then Russia locked down its borders in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic, halting all traffic to and from the country, including Thurber’s flight on a Russian Aeroflot plane to New York’s JFK International Airport. From there he was due to connect to his home in Tucson.
Now the 26-year-old is one of the dozens of foreign citizens, including a handful of Americans, marooned inside Moscow’s largest, and today mostly empty, airport with few food and lodging options —
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Mushroom 4/2/2020 5:23:02 AM (No. 365792)
Whiner. There is a cost to international travel. Years from now it will be a 'war' story, suck it up and be thankful you are even allowed back IN the US.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 4/2/2020 5:28:39 AM (No. 365794)
Something is not right here...
Why did he go there?
Why didn’t he stay w wife?
Why didn’t he have enough meds since 2018?
Sorry, Buzzfeed, aren’t you the ones who published an unverified, hit piece a few years ago?
KAG
25 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/2/2020 6:36:22 AM (No. 365830)
Has this guy been on the turnip truck for the past month?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
watashiyo 4/2/2020 6:39:40 AM (No. 365834)
I remember being bumped off at Guam airport under Space A flight when I was in college. Stranded at the airport for 4 miserable nights and broke. If it wasn't for the airport custodians, I wouldn't have made it. ....they shared their meals! So I hope this guy at the Russian airport survives this ordeal. Good luck!
4 people like this.
I am struggling with empathy for these people who choose to get on a cruise ship after this started; and for people who ignored the travel advisory to get home or be prepared to stay where you are for a long time.
13 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/2/2020 7:00:41 AM (No. 365849)
Life is about choices son - you made some bad ones.
14 people like this.
My baloney has a first name...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Condor44 4/2/2020 7:11:04 AM (No. 365855)
I don't understand this. I live in Ecuador. The US Embassy here in Quito, sends out emails every day giving updates on the situation. They have also arranged for charter flights leaving from Quito and Guayaquil for those tourists or expats desiring to return to the USA. They have been on top of it from the beginning.
19 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/2/2020 8:26:27 AM (No. 365911)
Thurber, if you see this, contact your US Senator, Martha McSally:
https://www.mcsally.senate.gov/contact_martha
DC Office: 202-224-2235
Good luck.
5 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Nimby 4/2/2020 8:45:05 AM (No. 365931)
Nothing in this story makes sense. I call it hogwash
10 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/2/2020 9:46:04 AM (No. 365994)
This story is fake news.
4 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Skinnydip 4/2/2020 9:58:31 AM (No. 366007)
Safer than flying Aeroflot.
5 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 4/2/2020 12:05:24 PM (No. 366148)
Hey, Bozo: you wanted a life in Russia; you got it. Now shut up and enjoy it!
Why don’t you surrender your passport, and become a Russian citizen? We have enough stupidity here already - we don’t want you back here adding to the problem, you millenial moron.
2 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/2/2020 1:08:04 PM (No. 366252)
OK, he speaks Russian, apparently, married to a Russian, and looks like he is pretty much become a Russian, by choice. REALLY bad choice. I have traveled a lot in Russia. I'd be getting my butt to Finland ASAP, not whining around. There is a fast train to St. Petersburg, a couple of hours from Moscow, and not a long drive from there to Finnish border, about 110 miles on good roads. A fist full of rubles will get a driver to take you there, no doubt.
I wonder if the Finns will let him cross? If it was me, I'd be on the fast train to St. Pete TODAY. Dithering and whining is not a plan.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
DVC 4/2/2020 1:09:15 PM (No. 366253)
Hah! #4, for me it was Prestwick, Scotland, with $12 in my pocket. Space A adventures.....
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