7-Day One-Way Flight?! (FLYING DURING PANDEMIC)

If you wonder if it’s worth flying during the Coronavirus pandemic, here is my nightmare. I am on my 7th day in 7 airports around the world trying to make it home. And that includes crossing the Atlantic ocean 3 times in 3 days, back and forth.
If you wanna know what's it like to travel during pandemic, I will also tell you which airline goes through your luggage and what was the only airline that provided hand sanitizers, masks, and gloves.
I am a Canadian-Romanian who got stuck for 4 months in Argentina during the Coronavirus. After 4 months, a flight carrier named Eastern Airlines got permission to do a commercial flight from Buenos Aires to Miami.
Being a Canadian-Romanian, I decided that my final destination would be Romania, to see my old parents, who’ve been freaking out during pandemic. So after this potential flight from Buenos Aires to Miami, I booked another expensive one-way ticket: from Miami to Romania, with layovers in New York and Zurich.
On the day of my escape from Argentina, I leave my Airbnb room to other stranded people, and I go to the Buenos Aires airport. I get there and I look for the Miami flight. Well, it doesn’t exist. Actually, it did, but the airline canceled it, or to be correct, they moved it to the next day. No email was sent to the passengers, no messages, no calls, NaDA. And get this: NOBODY from the airline was at the airport to explain this to all 300 passengers. They just sent one airport employee to talk to the crowd who came for the relief flight.
As Argentina is in lockdown -300 people are supposedly leaving back to their countries, but now - not anymore - and they have to find accommodation in a city that doesn’t take ANY reservations, there is no Uber, taxis available or shuttles to get them back 40 miles into the city. 
What did Eastern Airlines offer? Nothing. No vouchers for the extra night accommodation, transportation, taxis, meals. At least not when everyone was there. I mean, they weren’t even at the airport, what did I expect? 
I was lucky that a couple of people I’ve met there took me with them to the last place they’ve stayed at.
However, here is what Eastern Airlines did after everyone left the airport. After everyone took at least an hour to find ways back desperately and accommodation for the night, there were just a few people that literally had no options but to stay in the cold airport for the next 24 hours. 

Then and only then, after waiting for everyone to leave with no help, Eastern Airlines offered to take the few people left to a hotel - not when everyone was there, so they avoided spending any more money.

We finally left Buenos Aires for Miami next day. Obviously, the cancelation of the first flight made me miss my connection to Europe. So I had to book a new one with Swiss Air, from Miami to New York, then Zurich, Switzerland, and Romania. I was excited about this new flight with the port of departure being Miami, United States.

I did fly from Miami to New York, then jumped on an overseas flight with Swissair to Zurich. Here is where it got worse.

I get to Zurich, but Swissair doesn’t let me on the next plane. Canadians don’t have a restriction to enter Romania during the COVID-19 pandemic. Then what’s the problem? Although I am not an American, my departure was from a US city, and the United States are banned from entering the European Union. They said: “Sir, you cannot go to your birth country and you can’t get out of this airport either.” I was like Tom Hanks in “the Terminal.” 

They debated for 4 hours what to do with me. Then they say, “We will have to put you on a plane and send you back where you came from, meaning the US, and….the next flight is tomorrow”. For the night, I stayed in the terminal at their hotel, meant for situations like this. They took my passport and my luggage and told me they have to escort me tomorrow to the plane back to the US. Meanwhile, Swissair goes through my entire luggage, as I found my stuff completely rearranged in my suitcase.

They put me back on a flight Zurich - New York. However, after calling both the Romanian and Canadian embassies, I find out that I could still go to Romania only if my port of departure country would be Canada. So….once I land in New York; I booked a flight to Toronto, Canada, then to Paris then to Romania
7 days in 7 airports. So…if you’re considering travel during the pandemic, just wait a little longer.

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0:00 Intro
0:53 What happened flying during Coronavirus pandemic
1:48 - Day 1 Random cancelation
4:01 - Day 2 - Going through the U.S. during pandemic
4:36 - Day 3 - Flying to the European Union during the pandemic
4:52 - Day 4 - No exceptions in the E.U
6:24 - Day 5 - Sent Back Like an Item
7:18 - Day 6 - Flying from Canada during Coronavirus
7:56 - Day 7 - Flying from France during pandemic
8:05 - Will I make it?